Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: The Timing of Salah (Prayer), the Beginning, the End and the Outstanding Phases َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ ٠ُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ أَوِ ابْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) لِكُلِّ صَلاَةٍ وَقْتَانِ أَوَّلُ الْوَقْتِ أَفْضَلُهُ٠4.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Fadalah ibn Ayyub Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar or ibn Wahab who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘For every Salah (prayer) there are two kinds of timings and the outstanding one is the beginning of time.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/29))