Hadith 83

to see him-asws. He said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I am a man in the neighbourhood of a Masjid of a people. Then when I do not pray with them, they talk badly regarding me and they say, ‘He is such, and he is such! ’’
He-asws said: ‘As for you saying that, Amir Al-Momineen-asws has said: ‘One who hears the call (Azaan) but does not respond to it from without a (valid) reason, there is no Salat for him! Do not leave praying the Salat behind them and behind every prayer leader! ’
When he went out, I said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Your-asws words to this man are grievous upon me whereby he sought your-asws verdict! Supposing they do not happen to be Momineen? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Ja’far-asws smiled, then said: ‘I-asws should not see you except over here, O Zurara! So which reason do you want being greater that he should not be followed with? ’’
And from him, by his chain from Al Kulayni, by his chain Al-Hassan, from Al Halby, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘One who prays Salat with them in the first row, is like the one who prays behind Rasool-Allah-saww! ’’[146]
And from him, from him by his chain, from Al Husayn Bin Abdullah Al Rajany, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘One who prays Salat in his house, then comes to a Masjid from their Masjid(s) so he prays with them, will exit with their good deeds (being for him)’’. [147]
The book of Zayd Al Narsy, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I heard him-asws saying: ‘One who prays on the right of a prayer leader for forty days will enter the Paradise’’. [148]
And from him who said, ‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws narrating from his-asws father-asws having said: ‘One who perfects his Wud’u in his house and applies perfume, then walks from his house without hastiness, and upon him is the calmness and the dignity, to his prayer man desiring regarding a congregation of the Muslims, will not raise a food and will not place another except a good deed will be written for him, and an evil deed will be deleted from him, and a rank will be raise for him. When he enters the Masjid and says, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj, and by Allah-azwj, and upon nation of Rasool-Allah-saww, and from Allah-azwj, and to Allah-azwj, and whatever Allah-azwj Desires, and there is no strength except with Allah-azwj! O Allah-azwj! Open for me doors of Your‑azwj Mercy and Your-azwj Forgiveness, and Close from me doors of Your-azwj Annoyance and Your-azwj Wrath! O Allah-azwj! From You-azwj is the comfort and the relief. O Allah-azwj! To You-azwj is my morning and evening, and I have ended to Your-azwj courtyard! I have knelt seeking Your-azwj Mercy and Your-azwj Satisfaction, and I shun Your-azwj Wrath! O Allah-azwj, and I ask You-azwj for the comfort and the rest and the relief! ’
Then say, ‘O Allah-azwj! I divert to You-azwj through Muhammad-asws, and Ali-asws Amir Al-Momineen-asws, therefore Make me from the most diverting of the ones diverting to You-azwj through them-asws, and closest of the ones drawing closer to You-azwj through them-asws, and Draw me