Al-Kafi 7952

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahi, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws having said: ‘The Prophet^saww performed Hajj. So he^saww stayed in Mina for three (days), Praying two Cycles (shortened <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>). Then Abu Bakr did that, and Umar did that. Then Usman did that for six years. <span style="text-decoration: underline">Then Usman completed it as four</span>. So he Prayed Al-Zohr as four (Cycle). Then he fell sick due to that innovation. So he said to the Muezzin (caller to the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>), ‘Go to Ali^asws, and say to him^asws, and let him^asws Pray (lead) Al-Asr with the people’. So the Muezzin came over to Ali^asws and said to him^asws, ‘The commander of the faithful Usman orders you^asws that you^asws should Pray (lead) Al-Asr with the people’. But he^asws said: ‘Then I^asws shall not Pray except for two Cycles just as Rasool-Allah^saww Prayed’. So the Muezzin went and informed Usman with what Ali^asws had said. So he said, ‘Go to him^asws, and say to him^asws, ‘You^asws are not in anything (choice) from this. Go and Pray just as you^asws are ordered to’. Ali^asws said: ‘No, by Allah^azwj! I^asws will not do so’. So Usman came out and Prayed four (Cycles) with them. So when it was the caliphate of Muawiya, and the people gathered to him and murdered Amir Al-Momineen^asws, Muawiya performed Hajj. So he Prayed two Cycles of Al-Zohr with the people. Then he greeted (finished the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>). So the Clan of Umayya looked at each other, as well as (the people of) Saqeef, and the ones who were the adherents of Usmaan. Then they said, ‘It has been decided against your companion (Usman), and he has been opposed, and his enemies would gloat with it’. So they stood up and went over to him, and they said, ‘Do you know what you did? What you did increase upon, is that you judged against our companion (Usman), and his enemies would gloat with it, and turn away from his actions, and his way’. So he said, ‘Woe be unto you all! Are you not knowing that Rasool-Allah^saww Prayed two Cycles in this very place, and so did Abu Bakr, and Umar, and your companion (Usman) Prayed like that for six years? So now you are instructing me that I should leave the Sunnah of Rasool-Allah^saww, and what Abu Bakr did, and Umar, and Usman, before he innovated?’ So they said, ‘No, by Allah^azwj! We are not pleased from you except with that’. He said, ‘So I am hereby relieved with your interceding, and return to the way of your companion (Usman)’. So he Prayed Al-Asr as four (Cycles). Thereafter, the caliphs, and the emirs did not cease to be upon that until today’.

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