Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: The Times of Maghrib and ‘Isha’ Salah (Prayer) َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَحْ٠َ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠ِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ وَقْتُ الْ٠َغْرِبِ إِذَا ذَهَبَتِ الْحُ٠َشْرِقِ وَتَدْرِي كَيْفَ ذَاكَ قُلْتُ لاَ قَالَ لأَنَّ الْ٠ُطِلٌّ عَلَى الْ٠َغْرِبِ هَكَذَا وَرَفَعَ يَ٠ِينَهُ فَوْقَ يَسَارِهِ فَإِذَا غَابَتْ هَاهُنَا ذَهَبَتِ الْحُ٠1.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Ushaym from certain persons of our people who has said the following: “I once heard abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), say, ‘It is time for al-Maghrib Salah (prayer) when the redness disappears in the east. Do you know how it happens? 5 I replied, ‘No, I do not know. 5 He (the Imam) said that it is because the east is under-hanged in relation to the west like this.

5 He (the Imam) raised his right hand over his left hand. ‘When it is sunset here, the redness disappears there.”’ رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/37))