Chapter on the Virtue of Mosques and Prayer Within Them, and the Virtue of Congregational Prayer and Its Rulings

From him, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Talhah ibn Zayd, from Imam Ja’far عليه السلام, from his father عليه السلام, from Imam Ali عليه السلام, peace be upon him: Imam Ali عليه السلام used to break the mihrabs when He عليه السلام saw them in the mosques and would say: “It is as if they are altars of the Jews.”