إِنْ صَلَّى قَوْمٌ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ الْإِمَامِ مَا لَا يُتَخَطَّى فَلَيْسَ ذَلِكَ الْإِمَامُ لَهُمْ بِإِمَامٍ وَ أَيُّ صَفٍّ كَانَ أَهْلُهُ يُصَلُّونَ بِصَلَاةِ إِمَامٍ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ الصَّفِّ الَّذِي يَتَقَدَّمُهُمْ قَدْرَ مَا لَا يُتَخَطَّى فَلَيْسَ تِلْكَ لَهُمْ فَإِنْ كَانَ بَيْنَهُمْ سُتْرَةٌ أَوْ جِدَارٌ فَلَيْسَتْ تِلْكَ لَهُمْ بِصَلَاةٍ إِلَّا مَنْ كَانَ مِنْ حِيَالِ الْبَابِ قَالَ وَ قَالَ هَذِهِ الْمَقَاصِيرُ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي زَمَانِ أَحَدٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَ إِنَّمَا أَحْدَثَهَا الْجَبَّارُونَ لَيْسَتْ لِمَنْ صَلَّى خَلْفَهَا مُقْتَدِياً بِصَلَاةِ مَنْ فِيهَا صَلَاةٌ قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَكُونَ الصُّفُوفُ تَامَّةً مُتَوَاصِلَةً بَعْضُهَا إِلَى بَعْضٍ لَا يَكُونُ بَيْنَ صَفَّيْنِ مَا لَا يُتَخَطَّى يَكُونُ قَدْرُ ذَلِكَ مَسْقَطَ جَسَدِ الْإِنْسَانِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘If a group is praying <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> and between them and the Imam is what cannot be stepped (by one step), so that is not a Imam for them. And which row was its rightful praying with a <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> of a prayer-leader and between them and the one which is in front them there is a measurement of what cannot be stepped (by one step), so that (row) is not for them. So if there was between them a curtain or a wall, so that would not be for them with a <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, except the one who was from around the door’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘These chapels did not happen to be in the era of anyone from the people. But rather, the tyrants innovated them for the one who prays <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> behind it, following in the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> of the one who is inside it, for a <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is befitting if there happen to be complete rows, linked, one with the other, there not being between any two rows what cannot be stepped (by one step). There should happen to be a measurement of that of a falling in <span class="iTxt">Sajdah </span>(prostrating) of a body of a person’.
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