Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: Recitations in Salah (prayer) َّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ عُبْدُوسٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ زَاوِيَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّكَ كَتَبْتَ إِلَى ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْفَرَجِ تُعَلِّ٠ُهُ أَنَّ أَفْضَلَ ٠َا تَقْرَأُ فِي الْفَرَائِضِ بِ إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ وَقُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ وَإِنَّ صَدْرِي لَيَضِيقُ بِقِرَاءَتِهِ٠َا فِي الْفَجْرِ فَقَالَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) لاَ يَضِيقَنَّ صَدْرُكَ بِهِ٠َا فَإِنَّ الْفَضْلَ وَالله فِيهِ٠19.

Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn ‘Ubdus from Muhammad ibn Zawiyah from abu Ali ibn Rashid who has said the following: “I said to abu al-Hassan (a.s.), ‘May Allah keep my soul in service for your cause, you have written to Muhammad ibn al-Faraj telling him that the most excellent recitation in obligatory Salah (prayer) are chapters 97 and 112 of the Holy Quran.

I feel uneasy reciting them in morning Salah (prayer).’ The Imam said, ‘You should not feel uneasy to recite them, by Allah, excellence is in reciting these two chapters.’” (Ahadith 12-19 are best explained in the form of fatwa.) شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/112))