Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: Excellence of the Great Masjid of Kufah, Excellence of Performing Salah (prayer) and the Loveable places Therein َّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ قَالَ وَحَدَّثَنِي غَيْرُهُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَنْزِلُ فِي كُلِّ لَيْلَةٍ سِتُّونَ أَلْفَ ٠َلَكٍ يُصَلُّونَ عِنْدَ السَّابِعَةِ ثُ٠َلَكٌ إِلَى يَوْ٠5.

Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Asbat who has said that someone other than the narrator of the above Hadith narrated to me the following: “He (the Imam) (a.s.), has said, ‘Every night sixty thousand angels descend down to the seventh pillar to perform Salah (prayer), of which no one up to the Day of Judgment returns again.” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/488))