Al-Kafi 5558

Translation

Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, from Sahl, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan^asws, ‘Our companions are differing regarding the voluntary <span class="iTxt">Salāts</span>. Some of them are praying forty four (<span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span>), and some of them are praying fifty (<span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span>). So inform me with which are you^asws acting upon, how it is so that I can act upon the like of it’. So he^asws said: ‘I^asws pray fifty-one <span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span>’. Then he^asws said: ‘Hold on!’ And he^asws counted by his^asws hand – ‘The midday is eight (<span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span>), and four after <span class="iTxt">Al-Zohr</span>, and four before <span class="iTxt">Al-Asr</span>, and two <span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span> after <span class="iTxt">Al-Maghrib</span>, and two <span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span> before Isha the last, and two <span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span> after <span class="iTxt">Al-Isha</span> while seated, accounted as one <span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span> while standing, and eight for the night <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, and <span class="iTxt">Al-Witr </span>is of three, and two <span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span> of Al-Faj, and the Obligatory ones are seventeen. So that is fifty-one (<span class="iTxt">Rak’at</span>)’.

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