Chapter on the Virtue of Mosques and Prayer Within Them, and the Virtue of Congregational Prayer and Its Rulings
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 3|Book 2|Chapter 3
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām
Volume 3, Book 2, Chapter 3
Chapter on the Virtue of Mosques and Prayer Within Them, and the Virtue of Congregational Prayer and Its Rulings
اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ عَنِ اِبْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلْمَرْأَةِ تَؤُمُّ اَلنِّسَاءَ فَقَالَ« إِذَا كُنَّ جَمِيعاً أَمَّتْهُنَّ فِي اَلنَّافِلَةِ وَ أَمَّا اَلْمَكْتُوبَةُ فَلاَ وَ لاَ تَتَقَدَّمُهُنَّ وَ لَكِنْ تَقُومُ وَسَطاً مِنْهُنَّ»
Al-Husayn ibn Sa’id from Fadalah from Ibn Sinan from Sulayman ibn Khalid who said:
I asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about a woman leading women in prayer. Imam عليه السلام said: “If they are all women, she may lead them in the recommended (nafilah) prayer. As for the obligatory (maktoobah) prayer, no. And she should not stand in front of them, but rather she should stand in the middle of them (in the same row).”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 295
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 276