John Shaqi

فَلَمَّا نَفَذَ كِتَابِي إِلَيْهِ تَفَكَّرْتُ وَقُلْتُ هُوَ مِمَّا أَنْبَتَتِ الأرْضُ وَمَا كَانَ لِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ لاَ تُصَلِّ عَلَى الزُّجَاجِ وَإِنْ حَدَّثَتْكَ نَفْسُكَ أَنَّهُ مِمَّا أَنْبَتَتِ الأرْضُ وَلَكِنَّهُ مِنَ الْمِلْحِ وَالرَّمْلِ وَهُمَا مَمْسُوخَانِ.


Translation

14. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn who has said the following: “Certain ones of our people wrote to abu al-Hassan, the previous one, ‘Alayhi al-Salam, asking about Salah (prayer) on glass. He has said that when my letter finished I thought and said to myself that it is something that grows from earth, so I do not need to write and ask him (the Imam). He (the Imam) wrote to me, ‘You must not perform Salah (prayer) on glass even though your soul has spoken to you that it is of what earth grows. However, it is from salt and sand and they both are metamorphosed.’”


Book (Kitab)كِتَابُ الصَّلَاةِ
Chapter (Bab)باب مَا يُسْجَدُ عَلَيْهِ وَ مَا يُكْرَهُ
CollectionAl-Kafi

Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni

Source

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