ا قُلْنَا لَهُ الصَّلَوَاتُ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ فَرِيضَةٌ هِيَ فَقَالَ الصَّلَوَاتُ فَرِيضَةٌ وَ لَيْسَ الِاجْتِمَاعُ بِمَفْرُوضٍ فِي الصَّلَاةِ كُلِّهَا وَ لَكِنَّهَا سُنَّةٌ وَ مَنْ تَرَكَهَا رَغْبَةً عَنْهَا وَ عَنْ جَمَاعَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ غَيْرِ عِلَّةٍ فَلَا صَلَاةَ لَهُ .
Translation
Hammad, from Hareyz, from Zurara and Al Fuzayl both said, ‘We said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The <span class="iTxt">Salāts</span> in a <span class="iTxt">Jam’at</span>, are they an Obligation?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The <span class="iTxt">Salāts</span> are an Obligation, and the gathering is not an Obligation in the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, all of them, but it is a <span class="iTxt">Sunnah</span>, and the one who neglects it turns away from it and from a group of the Believers without a (valid) reason, so there is no <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> for him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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