قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَقُومُ أُصَلِّي بِمَكَّةَ وَ الْمَرْأَةُ بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ جَالِسَةٌ أَوْ مَارَّةٌ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ إِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتْ بَكَّةَ لِأَنَّهَا تَبُكُّ فِيهَا الرِّجَالُ وَ النِّسَاءُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Muawiya Bin Ammar who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘I stand and Pray <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> in Makkah, and the woman is seated in front of him, or passes by’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem. But rather, Makkah has been named as Bakkah, because therein ‘تَبُكُّ’ wail (Baka’a) the men and the women’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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