So, the one who delays the ‘Maghrib’ Salat from the...
So, the one who delays the ‘Maghrib’ Salat from the clustering of the stars would be opposing the Sunnah, just as the timing of the morning Salat is legislated as beginning from the dusk to the appearance of twilight leading to the disappearance of the stars. So, the one who delays it to the disappearance of the stars would have opposed the Sunnah .
[1] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ الْبَخْتَرِيِّ وَ غَيْرِهِ عَنْ عِيسَى شَلَقَانَ قَالَ كُنْتُ قَاعِداً فَمَرَّ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَعَهُ بَهْمَةٌ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا غُلَامُ مَا تَرَى مَا يَصْنَعُ أَبُوكَ يَأْمُرُنَا بِالشَّيْءِ ثُمَّ يَنْهَانَا عَنْهُ أَمَرَنَا أَنْ نَتَوَلَّى أَبَا الْخَطَّابِ ثُمَّ أَمَرَنَا أَنْ نَلْعَنَهُ وَ نَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hafs Bin Al Bakhtary and someone else from Isa Shalqan who said, ‘I was seated and Abu Al-Hassan Musa -asws passed by, and with him was a goat.
I said, ‘O boy! What is your -asws view of what your -asws father -asws did, ordering us with something then forbidding us from it.
He -asws ordered us that we befriend Abu Al-Khattab, then he -asws ordered us that we curse him and we should disavow from him?’ فَقَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هُوَ غُلَامٌ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً لِلْإِيمَانِ لَا زَوَالَ لَهُ وَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً لِلْكُفْرِ لَا زَوَالَ لَهُ وَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ أَعَارَهُ الْإِيمَانَ يُسَمَّوْنَ الْمُعَارِينَ إِذَا شَاءَ سَلَبَهُمْ وَ كَانَ أَبُو الْخَطَّابِ مِمَّنْ أُعِيرَ الْإِيمَانَ So Abu Al-Hassan -asws said, and he -asws was a boy: ‘Allah -azwj Created a people for the Emān , there being no decline for it, and Created a people for the Kufr (disbelief) there being no decline for it, and Created a people between that, Lending the Emān to him, named as the ‘temporary ones’.
Whenever He -azwj so Desires, He -azwj Confiscates it from them, and Abu Al-Khattab was from the ones who was Lent the Emān ’. قَالَ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ مَا قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَا قَالَ لِي فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّهُ نَبْعَةُ نُبُوَّةٍ . He (the narrator) said, ‘So I went over to Abu Abdullah -asws and informed him -asws of what I had said to Abu Al-Hassan -asws and what he -asws had said to me.
So Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘He -asws is a spring of the Prophet-hood’.
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