سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ هَلْ يَقْطَعُ صَلَاتَهُ شَيْءٌ مِمَّا يَمُرُّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَا يَقْطَعُ صَلَاةَ الْمُؤْمِنِ شَيْءٌ وَ لَكِنِ ادْرَءُوا مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ. وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَا يَقْطَعُ الصَّلَاةَ شَيْءٌ لَا كَلْبٌ وَ لَا حِمَارٌ وَ لَا امْرَأَةٌ وَ لَكِنِ اسْتَتِرُوا بِشَيْءٍ فَإِنْ كَانَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ قَدْرُ ذِرَاعٍ رَافِعاً مِنَ الْأَرْضِ فَقَدِ اسْتَتَرْتَ . قَالَ الْكُلَيْنِيُّ وَ الْفَضْلُ فِي هَذَا أَنْ تَسْتَتِرَ بِشَيْءٍ وَ تَضَعَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ مَا تَتَّقِي بِهِ مِنَ الْمَارِّ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَلَيْسَ بِهِ بَأْسٌ لِأَنَّ الَّذِي يُصَلِّي لَهُ الْمُصَلِّي أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِمَّنْ يَمُرُّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ لَكِنْ ذَلِكَ أَدَبُ الصَّلَاةِ وَ تَوْقِيرُهَا .
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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Usman Bin Isa, from Ibn Muskan, from Ibn Abu Yafour who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the man, ‘Should he cut off his <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> due to anything from what passes by in front of him?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Nothing cuts off the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> of the Believer, but be protective, whatever you are able to’. And in a report of Ibn Muskan, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Nothing cut off the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, neither a dog, nor a donkey, nor a woman, but veil yourself with something. So if there was in front of you (something of) a measurement of a cubit raised from the ground (in height), so you would have veiled’. Al-Kulayni and Al-Fazl said with regards to this, ‘You should veil with something and place it in front of you what you can protect with from the passer by. But if you do not do so, there is no problem with it, because the one who is praying is closer to the One Prayed to than the one who is passing by in front of him, but that is for etiquette of the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> and its reverence’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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