إِذَا قُمْتَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَلَا تُلْصِقْ قَدَمَكَ بِالْأُخْرَى دَعْ بَيْنَهُمَا فَصْلًا إِصْبَعاً أَقَلُّ ذَلِكَ إِلَى شِبْرٍ أَكْثَرُهُ وَ اسْدِلْ مَنْكِبَيْكَ وَ أَرْسِلْ يَدَيْكَ وَ لَا تُشَبِّكْ أَصَابِعَكَ وَ لْتَكُونَا عَلَى فَخِذَيْكَ قُبَالَةَ رُكْبَتَيْكَ وَ لْيَكُنْ نَظَرُكَ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ سُجُودِكَ فَإِذَا رَكَعْتَ فَصُفَّ فِي رُكُوعِكَ بَيْنَ قَدَمَيْكَ تَجْعَلُ بَيْنَهُمَا قَدْرَ شِبْرٍ وَ تُمَكِّنُ رَاحَتَيْكَ مِنْ رُكْبَتَيْكَ وَ تَضَعُ يَدَكَ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى رُكْبَتِكَ الْيُمْنَى قَبْلَ الْيُسْرَى وَ بَلِّغْ أَطْرَافَ أَصَابِعِكَ عَيْنَ الرُّكْبَةِ وَ فَرِّجْ أَصَابِعَكَ إِذَا وَضَعْتَهَا عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْكَ فَإِذَا وَصَلَتْ أَطْرَافُ أَصَابِعِكَ فِي رُكُوعِكَ إِلَى رُكْبَتَيْكَ أَجْزَأَكَ ذَلِكَ وَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ تُمَكِّنَ كَفَّيْكَ مِنْ رُكْبَتَيْكَ فَتَجْعَلَ أَصَابِعَكَ فِي عَيْنِ الرُّكْبَةِ وَ تُفَرِّجَ بَيْنَهُمَا وَ أَقِمْ صُلْبَكَ وَ مُدَّ عُنُقَكَ وَ لْيَكُنْ نَظَرُكَ إِلَى مَا بَيْنَ قَدَمَيْكَ فَإِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ فَارْفَعْ يَدَيْكَ بِالتَّكْبِيرِ وَ خِرَّ سَاجِداً وَ ابْدَأْ بِيَدَيْكَ فَضَعْهُمَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ قَبْلَ رُكْبَتَيْكَ تَضَعُهُمَا مَعاً وَ لَا تَفْتَرِشْ ذِرَاعَيْكَ افْتِرَاشَ السَّبُعِ ذِرَاعَيْهِ وَ لَا تَضَعَنَّ ذِرَاعَيْكَ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْكَ وَ فَخِذَيْكَ وَ لَكِنْ تَجَنَّحْ بِمِرْفَقَيْكَ وَ لَا تُلْصِقْ كَفَّيْكَ بِرُكْبَتَيْكَ وَ لَا تُدْنِهِمَا مِنْ وَجْهِكَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ حِيَالَ مَنْكِبَيْكَ وَ لَا تَجْعَلْهُمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رُكْبَتَيْكَ وَ لَكِنْ تُحَرِّفُهُمَا عَنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئاً وَ ابْسُطْهُمَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ بَسْطاً وَ اقْبِضْهُمَا إِلَيْكَ قَبْضاً وَ إِنْ كَانَ تَحْتَهُمَا ثَوْبٌ فَلَا يَضُرُّكَ وَ إِنْ أَفْضَيْتَ بِهِمَا إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ وَ لَا تُفَرِّجَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِكَ فِي سُجُودِكَ وَ لَكِنْ ضُمَّهُنَّ جَمِيعاً قَالَ وَ إِذَا قَعَدْتَ فِي تَشَهُّدِكَ فَأَلْصِقْ رُكْبَتَيْكَ بِالْأَرْضِ وَ فَرِّجْ بَيْنَهُمَا شَيْئاً وَ لْيَكُنْ ظَاهِرُ قَدَمِكَ الْيُسْرَى عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ ظَاهِرُ قَدَمِكَ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى بَاطِنِ قَدَمِكَ الْيُسْرَى وَ أَلْيَتَاكَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ طَرَفُ إِبْهَامِكَ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ إِيَّاكَ وَ الْقُعُودَ عَلَى قَدَمَيْكَ فَتَتَأَذَّى بِذَلِكَ وَ لَا تَكُنْ قَاعِداً عَلَى الْأَرْضِ فَتَكُونَ إِنَّمَا قَعَدَ بَعْضُكَ عَلَى بَعْضٍ فَلَا تَصْبِرَ لِلتَّشَهُّدِ وَ الدُّعَاءِ .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa, and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, from Hammad Bin Isa, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘When you stand in the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, so do not join your foot with the other one. Leave a distance between the two toes, the least of that being up to an open palm’s width and more; and drop your shoulders and send your hands without crossing your fingers for them to be upon your thighs, in front of the knees, and let your sight be towards the place of your <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>. So when you perform <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span>, form a row with your two feet making between them to be a distance of a measure of an open palm’s width, and enable your palms upon your knees and place you right hand upon your right knee before the left, and the tips of your fingers should reach the eye (centre) of the knee, and separate you fingers when you place them upon your knees. So when the tips of your fingers arrive to your knees during your <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span>, that would suffice you. And the most beloved to me<sup>asws</sup> is that you enable your palms upon your knees, so you make your fingers to be upon the eye (centre) of your knee and separate between the two, and straighten your back, and extend your neck, and let your sight be towards what is between your feet. So when you intend to perform <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>, raise your hand in the exclamation of <span class="iTxt">Takbīr</span> and fall down perform <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>, and begin with your hands and place these upon the ground before your knees, placing them both together and not squatting your forearms like the wild animals, nor placing your forearms upon your knees and your thighs, but forming wings with your elbows, not pasting your palm with your knees, nor them being too close to your face, displaying them parallel to your shoulders and not making them to be in front of your knees, but diverging them a little bit from that, and extend them upon the ground with an extensions, and pulling them a little towards you with a pulling. And if there was a cloth beneath them, it would not harm you, and if you were to lead with these two to the ground, so it would be superior. And do not separate between your fingers during your <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>, but keep them close together’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And when you sit during your performing of the <span class="iTxt">Tashahhud </span>(three or more testimonies), so paste the two knees with the ground and separate between the two a bit, and let the back of your left foot be upon the ground and the back of your right foot be upon the inside of your left foot and your backside to be upon the ground, and the side of your right big toe to be upon the ground. And beware of the sitting upon your two feet, for you would be hurt by that. And do not sit with part of you upon the (other) part but let yourself be sitting upon the ground, so you should rather happen to be sitting (comfortably), otherwise you would not be patient for the <span class="iTxt">Tashahhud</span> and the supplication’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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