سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يُصَلِّي بِقَوْمٍ وَ هُمْ فِي مَوْضِعٍ أَسْفَلَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِ الَّذِي يُصَلِّي فِيهِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الْإِمَامُ عَلَى شِبْهِ الدُّكَّانِ أَوْ عَلَى مَوْضِعٍ أَرْفَعَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِمْ لَمْ يَجُزْ صَلَاتُهُمْ وَ إِنْ كَانَ أَرْفَعَ مِنْهُمْ بِقَدْرِ إِصْبَعٍ أَوْ أَكْثَرَ أَوْ أَقَلَّ إِذَا كَانَ الِارْتِفَاعُ بِبَطْنِ مَسِيلٍ فَإِنْ كَانَ أَرْضاً مَبْسُوطَةً أَوْ كَانَ فِي مَوْضِعٍ مِنْهَا ارْتِفَاعٌ فَقَامَ الْإِمَامُ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الْمُرْتَفِعِ وَ قَامَ مَنْ خَلْفَهُ أَسْفَلَ مِنْهُ وَ الْأَرْضُ مَبْسُوطَةٌ إِلَّا أَنَّهُمْ فِي مَوْضِعٍ مُنْحَدِرٍ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ قَالَ وَ سُئِلَ فَإِنْ قَامَ الْإِمَامُ أَسْفَلَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِ مَنْ يُصَلِّي خَلْفَهُ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ وَ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَ رَجُلٌ فَوْقَ بَيْتٍ أَوْ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ دُكَّاناً كَانَ أَوْ غَيْرَهُ وَ كَانَ الْإِمَامُ يُصَلِّي عَلَى الْأَرْضِ أَسْفَلَ مِنْهُ جَازَ لِلرَّجُلِ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ خَلْفَهُ وَ يَقْتَدِيَ بِصَلَاتِهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ أَرْفَعَ مِنْهُ بِشَيْءٍ كَثِيرٍ .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Idrees, and someone else, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Ahmad Bin Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Amro Bin Saeed, from Musaddiq Bin Sadaqa, from Ammar Al Sabaty, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the man who prays with a group (leading them), and they are in a place which is lower than his place which he is praying in. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was so that the Imam was upon something resembling a platform, or upon a place higher than their place, their <span class="iTxt">Salāt </span>is not allowed; and if he was higher than them by a measurement of a finger, or more, or less, when it has higher by the plateau of the ravine. So if the land was stretched, or it was in a place from it which was higher, so the Imams stands upon the higher place, and the ones behind him stand upon (that which is) lower than him, and the ground it stretched, except that they are in a place of slope, there is no problem’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And he was asked, ‘Supposing if the Imam stands lower than the ones who pray behind him?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If the man was on top of his house or other than that, a shop or something else, and the Imam was upon the ground, lower than him, it is allowed for the man that he prays <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> behind him, and follow him in his <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, and even if he was higher than him by something more’.
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