Hadith 83

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(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
In his-asws pact to Al-Ashtar: And when you stand in your Salat for the people, neither become repulsive (by prolonging) nor waste it (by shortening too much), for among the people there is one with sickness, and for him is the need. And I–asws had asked Rasool-Allah–saww when he–saww had sent me–asws to Al-Yemen: ‘How shall I–asws pray Salat with them? ’ He–saww said: ‘Pray Salat with them like the Salat of their weakest one, and by merciful with the Momineen’’. [128]
(The book) ‘Kitab Al Gharaat’ of Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Saqafy, from Yahya Bin Salih, from Malik Bin Khalid Al Asady, from Al-Hassan Bin Ibrahim, ‘From Abdullah son of Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, from his forefathers-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws wrote to Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr: ‘Look, O Muhammad, at your Salat how you are praying at its timings, for there isn’t any prayer leader praying with a group and there would be deficiency in his Salat except it (his deficiency) would be upon him, and that will not reduce (anything) from their Salat’’. [129]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And in a report by Ibn Abu Al-Hadeed: ‘And look, O Muhammad, at your Salat how you are praying it, for that you are a prayer leader. It is befitting for you that you complete it and lighten it, and that you should pray it at its timing. There isn’t any prayer leader praying with a group, so he would be in his Salat and their Salat would be deficient, except the sin of that would be upon him, and that will not reduce anything from their Salat’’. [130]
And it is reported in ‘Tuhaf Al-Uqoul’ like this: ‘Then look at your Salat how it is, for you are a prayer leader, and there isn’t any prayer leader praying with a group there being a deficiency in their Salat, except their burdens would be upon him and nothing will be reduced from their Salat(s), and he will not complete it except for him would be like their Rewards and nothing will be reduced from their Rewards. And know that all things from your actions are pursuant to your Salat, and know that the one who wastes the Salat, so he is more wasting to other than the Salat from Laws of ’’. [131]
(The book) ‘Uddat Al Daie’ –
‘Rasool-Allah-saww prayed with the people one day, so he-saww lightened in the last two Cycles. When he-saww finished, the people said to him-saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! We saw you-saww lightening, did a new Command occur regarding the Salat? ’
He-saww said: ‘And what is that? ’
They said, ‘You-saww lightened in the last two Cycles’. He-saww said: ‘And did you not hear the crying of the child? ’
And in another Hadeeth: ‘I-saww feared that the mind of his father might be pre-occupied with him’’. [132]
(The book) ‘Majma Al Bayan’ – It is reported by Jameel, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘When you were to be behind a prayer leader, so when he is free from reciting (Surah) Al-Fatiha, then you should say from behind him, ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj, Lord-azwj of the worlds’’. [133]
(The book) ‘Al Ayyashi’ – from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the prayer leader,