[18] VERSE 4 فَوَيْلٌ لِلْمُصَلِّينَ {4} So woe be unto the Musalleen [107...

[18] VERSE 4 فَوَيْلٌ لِلْمُصَلِّينَ {4} So woe be unto the Musalleen [107:4] Explanation of the Musalleen from Chapter 74 علي بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْمَاضِي ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ قَالَ إِنَّا لَمْ نَتَوَلَّ وَصِيَّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ الْأَوْصِيَاءَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ لَا يُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِمْ Ali Bin Muhammad, from some of our companions, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzayl, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan Al-Maazy -asws (7 th Imam -asws ), said, ‘I asked Him -asws about the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: They shall say, ‘We were not from the Musalleen [74:43] ’.

He -asws said: ‘(They would be saying), ‘We did not (have) the Wilayah of the successor -asws of Muhammad -saww and the successors -asws from after him -asws , nor did we send Salawat upon them -asws ’. [19] عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْقُمِّيِّ عَنْ إِدْرِيسَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ تَفْسِيرِ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ ما سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ.

قالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ قَالَ عَنَى بِهَا لَمْ نَكُ مِنْ أَتْبَاعِ الْأَئِمَّةِ الَّذِينَ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى فِيهِمْ وَ السَّابِقُونَ السَّابِقُونَ. أُولئِكَ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ Ali Bin Muhammad, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ismail Bin Mihran, from Al Hassan Al Qummy, from Idrees Bin Abdullah, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws , said, ‘I asked him -asws about the interpretation of this Verse: What brought you into Saqar (Inferno)?

أَ مَا تَرَى النَّاسَ يُسَمُّونَ الَّذِي يَلِي السَّابِقَ فِي الْحَلْبَةِ مُصَلِّي فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي عَنَى حَيْثُ قَالَ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ لَمْ نَكُ مِنْ أَتْبَاعِ السَّابِقِينَ But, have you not seen the people naming the one who follows the preceding one in the (horse) race as ‘Musally’? So that is what they mean when they would be saying, ‘We were not of the ‘ Musalleen ’, i.e., we were not the ones who followed the foremost one -asws ’.