ا سَأَلْنَا أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ صَلَاةِ الْكُسُوفِ كَمْ هِيَ رَكْعَةً وَ كَيْفَ نُصَلِّيهَا فَقَالَ عَشْرُ رَكَعَاتٍ وَ أَرْبَعُ سَجَدَاتٍ تَفْتَتِحُ الصَّلَاةَ بِتَكْبِيرَةٍ وَ تَرْكَعُ بِتَكْبِيرَةٍ وَ تَرْفَعُ رَأْسَكَ بِتَكْبِيرَةٍ إِلَّا فِي الْخَامِسَةِ الَّتِي تَسْجُدُ فِيهَا وَ تَقُولُ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ لِمَنْ حَمِدَهُ وَ تَقْنُتُ فِي كُلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الرُّكُوعِ وَ تُطِيلُ الْقُنُوتَ وَ الرُّكُوعَ عَلَى قَدْرِ الْقِرَاءَةِ وَ الرُّكُوعِ وَ السُّجُودِ فَإِنْ فَرَغْتَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْجَلِيَ فَاقْعُدْ وَ ادْعُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ حَتَّى يَنْجَلِيَ وَ إِنِ انْجَلَى قَبْلَ أَنْ تَفْرُغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِكَ فَأَتِمَّ مَا بَقِيَ وَ تَجْهَرُ بِالْقِرَاءَةِ قَالَ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ الْقِرَاءَةُ فِيهَا فَقَالَ إِنْ قَرَأْتَ سُورَةً فِي كُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ فَاقْرَأْ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ وَ إِنْ نَقَصْتَ مِنَ السُّورَةِ شَيْئاً فَاقْرَأْ مِنْ حَيْثُ نَقَصْتَ وَ لَا تَقْرَأْ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ قَالَ وَ كَانَ يَسْتَحِبُّ أَنْ يَقْرَأَ فِيهَا بِالْكَهْفِ وَ الْحِجْرِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ إِمَاماً يَشُقُّ عَلَى مَنْ خَلْفَهُ وَ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَكُونَ صَلَاتُكَ بَارِزاً لَا يَجُنُّكَ بَيْتٌ فَافْعَلْ وَ صَلَاةُ كُسُوفِ الشَّمْسِ أَطْوَلُ مِنْ صَلَاةِ كُسُوفِ الْقَمَرِ وَ هُمَا سَوَاءٌ فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ وَ الرُّكُوعِ وَ السُّجُودِ .
Translation
Ali, from his father and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al-Fazl Bin Sh<span class="iTxt">Azaan </span>, altogether from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara and Muhammad Bin Muslim who both said, ‘We asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> about the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> of the eclipse, ‘How many Rak’at it is, and how is to be prayed’. Ten Rak’at and four <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>s. You would commence the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> with a <span class="iTxt">Takbīr’</span> and you would perform <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span> with a <span class="iTxt">Takbīr’</span>, and raise your head with a <span class="iTxt">Takbīr’</span> except in the fifth in which you would perform <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span> (prostrate) in, and you should be saying, ‘Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Hears the one who Praises Him<sup>azwj</sup>’, and you should perform <span class="iTxt">Iqamah</span> in every two Rak’at before the <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span>, and you should prolong the <span class="iTxt">Iqamah</span> and the <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span> upon a measurement of the recitation, and the <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span> and the <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>. So if you are free before it clears, be seated and supplicate to Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic until it does clear; and if it clears before you are free from your <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, so complete whatever remains and be loud with the recitation’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘How is the recitation in it?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If you were to recite a Chapter in every Rak’at, so recite the Opening of the Book (Chapter 1); and if you reduce anything from the Chapter, so recite from wherever you had reduced, and do not recite the Opening of the Book’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And it was always a recommendation if one were to recite therein with (Surah) Al-Kahf, and (Surah) Al-Hijr, except if there happens to be a prayer leader, it being difficult upon the ones behind him; and if you have the capacity that your <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> be out in the open, a house not shielding you, then do so; and a <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> of an eclipse of the sun is longer than a <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> for an eclipse of the moon, and they are both the same in the recitation, and the <span class="iTxt">Rukū</span>, and the <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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