قُلْتُ لَهُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ حَدِّ الْوَجْهِ الَّذِي يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يُوَضَّأَ الَّذِي قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَقَالَ الْوَجْهُ الَّذِي أَمَرَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِغَسْلِهِ الَّذِي لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ أَنْ يَزِيدَ عَلَيْهِ وَ لَا يَنْقُصَ مِنْهُ إِنْ زَادَ عَلَيْهِ لَمْ يُؤْجَرْ وَ إِنْ نَقَصَ مِنْهُ أَثِمَ مَا دَارَتْ عَلَيْهِ السَّبَّابَةُ وَ الْوُسْطَى وَ الْإِبْهَامُ مِنْ قُصَاصِ الرَّأْسِ إِلَى الذَّقَنِ وَ مَا جَرَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْإِصْبَعَانِ مِنَ الْوَجْهِ مُسْتَدِيراً فَهُوَ مِنَ الْوَجْهِ وَ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ فَلَيْسَ مِنَ الْوَجْهِ قُلْتُ الصُّدْغُ لَيْسَ مِنَ الْوَجْهِ قَالَ لَا .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, altogether, fromHammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Inform me about the extent of the face which is befitting for one that he washes for the Ablution <span class="iTxt">(Wudhu)</span> which Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Speaks of?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The face which Allah<sup>azwj</sup> the Exalted Commanded with its washing is that which is not befitting for anyone to increase upon, nor be deficient from it; if he exceeds upon it, he would not be Recompenses, and if he is deficient from it, he would sin, is what the index finder, and the middle finger, and the thumb would circumvent from the front of the head to the chin, and what the two fingers flow upon from the face, encircling, so it is from the face, and whatever is besides that, so it is not from the face’. I said, ‘The temples (sides of the forehead) is not from the face?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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