قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّكَ كَتَبْتَ إِلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَرَجِ تُعَلِّمُهُ أَنَّ أَفْضَلَ مَا تَقْرَأُ فِي الْفَرَائِضِ بِ إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ وَ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ وَ إِنَّ صَدْرِي لَيَضِيقُ بِقِرَاءَتِهِمَا فِي الْفَجْرِ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) لَا يَضِيقَنَّ صَدْرُكَ بِهِمَا فَإِنَّ الْفَضْلَ وَ اللَّهِ فِيهِمَا .
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ahmad Bin Abdous, from Muhammad Bin Zawiya, from Abu Ali Bin Rashid who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! You<sup>asws</sup> wrote to Muhammad Bin Al-Faraj teaching him that the most superior of what one can recite during the Obligatory (<span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>) is with ‘We<sup>azwj</sup> Revealed it’ (Chapter 97), and ‘Say He<sup>azwj</sup> Allah<sup>azwj</sup> is One’ (Chapter 112), and my chest is constricted by reciting these two during Al-Fajr (<span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>)’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not constrict your chest by these two, for the merit, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, is in these two’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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