Al-Kafi 6609

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘We went over to Abu Abdullah^asws, so Abu Baseer said to him^asws, ‘What are you^asws saying regarding the Prayer during the Month of Ramazan?’ So he^asws said: ‘For the Month of Ramazan is a sanctity and a right. Nothing resembles it from the (other) months. Pray what you are able to during a Month of Ramazan, voluntarily at night, and the day. So, if you have the ability that you Pray a thousand Cycles every day and night, so do it. Ali^asws, and the end of his^asws life-span, used to Pray a thousand Cycles during each day and night. Therefore Pray, O Abu Muhammad, increasingly during Ramazan’. So I said, ‘How much? May I be sacrificed for you^asws’. So he^asws said: ‘During twenty nights, you should Pray during every night, twenty Cycles - eight Cycles being before the dusk, and twelve Cycles after it, besides what you were Praying before. So when the last ten days come over, so Pray thirty Cycles during every night – eight Cycles being before the dusk, and twenty two Cycles being after it, besides what you were doing before that’.

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