إِذَا اجْتَمَعَ عَلَيْكَ وَتْرَانِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةٌ أَوْ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَاقْضِ ذَلِكَ كَمَا فَاتَكَ تَفْصِلُ بَيْنَ كُلِّ وَتْرَيْنِ بِصَلَاةٍ لِأَنَّ الْوَتْرَ الْآخِرُ لَا تُقَدِّمَنَّ شَيْئاً قَبْلَ أَوَّلِهِ الْأَوَّلَ فَالْأَوَّلَ تَبْدَأُ إِذَا أَنْتَ قَضَيْتَ صَلَاةَ لَيْلَتِكَ ثُمَّ الْوَتْرَ قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) لَا يَكُونُ وَتْرَانِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ إِلَّا وَ أَحَدُهُمَا قَضَاءٌ وَ قَالَ إِنْ أَوْتَرْتَ مِنْ أَوَّلِ اللَّيْلِ وَ قُمْتَ فِي آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ فَوَتْرُكَ الْأَوَّلُ قَضَاءٌ وَ مَا صَلَّيْتَ مِنْ صَلَاةٍ فِي لَيْلَتِكَ كُلِّهَا فَلْيَكُنْ قَضَاءً إِلَى آخِرِ صَلَاتِكَ فَإِنَّهَا لِلَيْلَتِكَ وَ لْيَكُنْ آخِرُ صَلَاتِكَ الْوَتْرَ وَتْرَ لَيْلَتِكَ .
Translation
From him, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘When two (outstanding) <span class="iTxt">Witr</span> (<span class="iTxt">Salāts</span>) gather upon you, or three, or more than that, so fulfil that just as it has been missed out, keeping a distance between every two <span class="iTxt">Witr</span> (<span class="iTxt">Salāts</span>), with one <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, because <span class="iTxt">Al-Witr </span>(Salāt) is the last one, nothing can precede its first one as the first one. So the first one to begin with is when you fulfil an (outstanding) <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> of your night, then you pray Al-<span class="iTxt">Witr</span>’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Two <span class="iTxt">Al-Witr </span>(<span class="iTxt">Salāts</span>) cannot happen to be in one night except that one of the two is a fulfilment (of an outstanding one)’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If you were to pray <span class="iTxt">Al-Witr </span>(Salāt) at the beginning of the night and stand (to pray) at the end of the night, so your first <span class="iTxt">Witr </span>(Salāt) is a fulfilment (of an outstanding one), and whatever you had prayed from the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> during your night, all of them, so let the fulfilment (of outstanding <span class="iTxt">Salāts</span>) be at the end of your <span class="iTxt">Salāts</span>, for these are for your night, and let the last of your <span class="iTxt">Salāts</span> be <span class="iTxt">Al-Witr </span>(Salāt), being <span class="iTxt">Witr</span> for your night’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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