قُلْتُ لَهُ الصَّلَاةُ خَلْفَ الْعَبْدِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ إِذَا كَانَ فَقِيهاً وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ هُنَاكَ أَفْقَهُ مِنْهُ قَالَ قُلْتُ أُصَلِّي خَلْفَ الْأَعْمَى قَالَ نَعَمْ إِذَا كَانَ لَهُ مَنْ يُسَدِّدُهُ وَ كَانَ أَفْضَلَهُمْ قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) لَا يُصَلِّيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ خَلْفَ الْمَجْذُومِ وَ الْأَبْرَصِ وَ الْمَجْنُونِ وَ الْمَحْدُودِ وَ وَلَدِ الزِّنَا وَ الْأَعْرَابِيُّ لَا يَؤُمُّ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘(What about) the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> behind the slave?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with it when he was an understanding one, and there does not happen to be over there one of more understanding than him’. I said, ‘Can I pray <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> behind the blind one?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes, when there was for him someone who guides him (to face the Qiblah), and he was the best of them’. He<sup>asws</sup> said, ‘And Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Not one of you should pray <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> behind the leper, and the one with vitiligo, and the insane, and the restricted (by physical disability), and a son of adultery (bastard), and the Bedouin, immigrant (a drifter- i.e., a gipsy) must not lead (<span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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