Al-Kafi 7976

Translation

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ali Bin Mahziyar who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Ja’far^asws that the reports have differed from your^asws forefathers^asws regarding the complete (<span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>) and the shortening in the two <span class="iTxt">Harrams</span>. So, from these is that one should Pray the complete <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> and even if it was just one, and from these is that one should shorten for as long as one does not intend to stay for ten days; and I did not cease to be upon the complete <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> therein until we commenced with our Hajj in this year of ours. So, the understanding ones of our companions advised me with the shortening when I do not intend staying for ten days. So I came to be shortening, and have been distressed by that, until I recognise your^asws view’. So he^asws wrote to me in his^asws own handwriting: ‘I^asws have taught you, may Allah^azwj have Mercy on you, the merits of the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> in the two <span class="iTxt">Harrams</span> over the other places, therefore I^asws love for you that when you enter these two, that you should not shorten, and frequently Pray the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> in these two (<span class="iTxt">Harrams</span>)’. So I said to him^asws orally, after two years, ‘I wrote to you with such and such, and you^asws answered me with such and such’. So he^asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Which thing did you^asws mean by the two <span class="iTxt">Harrams</span>?’ So he^asws said: ‘Makkah and Al-Medina’.

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