Al-Kafi 4904

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Zurara and Al Fuzayl, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws regarding the Words of Allah^azwj, Blessed is His^azwj Name <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:4#h103"><a href="/books/quran:4#h103">[4:103]</a></a> surely prayer is a timed ordinance upon the Believers</span>. He^asws said: ‘It Means Obligatory and does not mean a time being missed out. When that timing is exceeded, then he prays, his <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> would not happen to be rendered. And had it been for that, Suleyman^as Bin Dawood^as would have been destroyed when he^as prayed it during other than its time. But, when he^as remembered it, prayed it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he^asws said: ‘When you are convinced or doubt with regards to its timing that you have not prayed it, or you are within a timing of it being missed out, that you did not pray it, pray it. So if you were to doubt after the expiry of the time of it being missed out on, so an obstacle has entered. Therefore there is no repeating upon you from a doubt until you are convinced. So if you are convinced, then upon you is that you pray it in whichever state you were’.

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