Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Chapter on Recommended (Non-Obligatory) Prayers
مَا رَوَاهُ اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ إِنِّي رَجُلٌ تَاجِرٌ أَخْتَلِفُ وَ أَتَّجِرُ فَكَيْفَ لِي بِالزَّوَالِ وَ اَلْمُحَافَظَةِ عَلَى صَلاَةِ اَلزَّوَالِ وَ كَمْ تُصَلَّى قَالَ« تُصَلِّي ثَمَانِيَ رَكَعَاتٍ إِذَا زَالَتِ اَلشَّمْسُ وَرَكْعَتَيْنِ بَعْدَ اَلظُّهْرِ وَرَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ اَلْعَصْرِ فَهَذِهِ اِثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ رَكْعَةً وَتُصَلِّي بَعْدَ اَلْمَغْرِبِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَبَعْدَ مَا يَنْتَصِفُ اَللَّيْلُ ثَلاَثَ عَشْرَةَ رَكْعَةً مِنْهَا اَلْوَتْرُ وَمِنْهَا رَكْعَتَا اَلْفَجْرِ فَتِلْكَ سَبْعٌ وَعِشْرُونَ رَكْعَةً سِوَى اَلْفَرِيضَةِ وَ إِنَّمَا هَذَا كُلُّهُ تَطَوُّعٌ وَ لَيْسَ بِمَفْرُوضٍ إِنَّ تَارِكَ اَلْفَرِيضَةِ كَافِرٌ وَ إِنَّ تَارِكَ هَذَا لَيْسَ بِكَافِرٍ وَ لَكِنَّهَا مَعْصِيَةٌ لِأَنَّهُ يُسْتَحَبُّ إِذَا عَمِلَ اَلرَّجُلُ عَمَلاً مِنَ اَلْخَيْرِ أَنْ يَدُومَ عَلَيْهِ»
Al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id narrated from Ibn Abi Umayr from Ibn Udhaynah from Zurarah. He said: I (Zurarah) said to Abu Ja‘far (a.s): “I am a merchant, I travel and engage in trade. So how can I manage the time of zawal and maintain the prayer of zawal, and how many rak‘ahs should be prayed?” Imam (a.s) said: “You pray eight rak‘ahs when the sun passes the meridian, and two rak‘ahs after Dhuhr, and two rak‘ahs before ‘Asr, these are twelve rak‘ahs. And you pray two rak‘ahs after Maghrib, and after the middle of the night, thirteen rak‘ahs, among which is the witr, and among which are the two rak‘ahs of fajr. That makes twenty-seven rak‘ahs besides the obligatory prayer. And indeed, all of this is supererogatory and not obligatory. Verily, the one who abandons the obligatory prayer is a disbeliever, and the one who abandons this (supererogatory) is not a disbeliever, but it is a sin, because it is recommended that when a man does a good deed, he remains consistent in it.”
Translation: Haydar Ali Shaykh ibn Muhammad — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.
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Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
authentic
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 8
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
Ṣaḥīḥ
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 134
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