Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Chapter on the Rulings of Congregational Prayer (the Minimum Number for Congregational Prayer, the Description of the Imam, Who Is to Be Followed and Who Is Not to Be Followed, Recitation Behind Both of Them, the Rulings of Those Led in Prayer, and Other Such Rulings Related to It)
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رَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اَلْإِمَامِ يُصَلِّي بِأَرْبَعَةِ أَنْفُسٍ أَوْ خَمْسَةِ أَنْفُسٍ فَيُسَبِّحُ اِثْنَانِ عَلَى أَنَّهُمْ صَلَّوْا ثَلاَثاً وَ يُسَبِّحُ ثَلاَثَةٌ عَلَى أَنَّهُمْ صَلَّوْا أَرْبَعَةً يَقُولُونَ هَؤُلاَءِ قُومُوا وَ يَقُولُونَ هَؤُلاَءِ اُقْعُدُوا وَ اَلْإِمَامُ مَائِلٌ مَعَ أَحَدِهِمَا أَوْ مُعْتَدِلُ اَلْوَهْمِ فَمَا يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ« لَيْسَ عَلَى اَلْإِمَامِ سَهْوٌ إِذَا حَفِظَ عَلَيْهِ مَنْ خَلْفَهُ سَهْوَهُ بِإِيقَانٍ مِنْهُمْ وَ لَيْسَ عَلَى مَنْ خَلْفَ اَلْإِمَامِ سَهْوٌ إِذَا لَمْ يَسْهُ اَلْإِمَامُ وَ لاَ سَهْوَ فِي سَهْوٍ وَ لَيْسَ فِي اَلْمَغْرِبِ وَ اَلْفَجْرِ سَهْوٌ وَ لاَ فِي اَلرَّكْعَتَيْنِ اَلْأَوَّلَتَيْنِ مِنْ كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ وَ لاَ سَهْوَ فِي نَافِلَةٍ فَإِذَا اِخْتَلَفَ عَلَى اَلْإِمَامِ مَنْ خَلْفَهُ فَعَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَيْهِمْ فِي اَلاِحْتِيَاطِ اَلْإِعَادَةُ وَ اَلْأَخْذُ بِالْجَزْمِ»
Muhammad ibn Yaqub narrated from Ali ibn Ibrahim from his father from Muhammad ibn Isa from Yunus from a man from Abu Abdillah (a.s), peace be upon him, who said: I asked Imam al-Sadiq (a.s) about an imam (of prayer) who is leading four or five people in prayer. Then two of them do tasbih (declare the imam of prayer has prayed three rak’ahs), and three of them do tasbih that they have prayed four rak’ahs. The two say: “Stand up,” and the three say: “Sit down,” while the imam (of prayer) inclines toward one of the groups or is uncertain and neutral in his doubt what is obligatory upon him? Imam (a.s) said: “There is no sahw (prostration of forgetfulness) upon the imam (of prayer) if those behind him have preserved his error with certainty. And there is no sahw upon those behind the imam (of prayer), if the imam (of prayer) did not err. And there is no sahw in sahw (no prostration for doubting whether one made a mistake). And there is no sahw in the Maghrib and Fajr prayers, nor in the first two rak’ahs of any prayer, and there is no sahw in supererogatory (nafilah) prayers. But if those behind the imam (of prayer) differ among themselves, then it is obligatory upon him and upon them, by way of precaution, to repeat the prayer and to act upon certainty.”
Translation: Haydar Ali Shaykh ibn Muhammad — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.
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Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
loosely transmitted
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 60
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
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