كَتَبْتُ إِلَى الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) ذَكَرَ أَصْحَابُنَا أَنَّهُ إِذَا زَالَتِ الشَّمْسُ فَقَدْ دَخَلَ وَقْتُ الظُّهْرِ وَ الْعَصْرِ وَ إِذَا غَرَبَتْ دَخَلَ وَقْتُ الْمَغْرِبِ وَ الْعِشَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا أَنَّ هَذِهِ قَبْلَ هَذِهِ فِي السَّفَرِ وَ الْحَضَرِ وَ أَنَّ وَقْتَ الْمَغْرِبِ إِلَى رُبُعِ اللَّيْلِ فَكَتَبَ كَذَلِكَ الْوَقْتُ غَيْرَ أَنَّ وَقْتَ الْمَغْرِبِ ضَيِّقٌ وَ آخِرُ وَقْتِهَا ذَهَابُ الْحُمْرَةِ وَ مَصِيرُهَا إِلَى الْبَيَاضِ فِي أُفُقِ الْمَغْرِبِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad and Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ismail Bin Mihran who said, ‘I wrote to Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Our companions are mentioning that when the sun (starts to) decline, so the time for Al-Zohr and Al-Asr has entered, and when it sets, so the time for Al-Maghrib and Al-Isha the last has entered, until this is before this during the journey as well as the staying, and that the time for Al-Maghrib is up to a quarter of the night’. So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote: ‘The timing is like that apart from that the time for Al-Maghrib is narrow, and the end of its time is the departure of the redness and its becoming to the whiteness in the western horizon’.
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