So the one cubit and two cubits came to be an explanation of the one foot and two feet during the time in which the upright shadow happens to be of one cubit, and the shadow of the two uprights statures being of two cubits. Thus, the shadow of the upright stature and two upright statures, and one cubit and two cubits happen to be co-incidental during every time, both recognised, one of them being interpreted by the other, being supported by it.
So when it was the time wherein the shadow of the stature happens to be of one cubit, it would be the time of one cubit from the shadow of the upright stature, and the upright cubit would be from the shadow. So when the upright shadow is less or more, it would be the time limited by the cubit and the two cubits. فَهَذَا تَفْسِيرُ الْقَامَةِ وَ الْقَامَتَيْنِ وَ الذِّرَاعِ وَ الذِّرَاعَيْنِ .
So, this is the interpretation of the upright stature and the two upright statures, and the one cubit and the two cubits’.
[26] Sal ā t Timings -The time for Al Al-Maghrib and the last Al-Isha ( Salāts ) مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَشْيَمَ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ وَقْتُ الْمَغْرِبِ إِذَا ذَهَبَتِ الْحُمْرَةُ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَ تَدْرِي كَيْفَ ذَاكَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ لِأَنَّ الْمَشْرِقَ مُطِلٌّ عَلَى الْمَغْرِبِ هَكَذَا وَ رَفَعَ يَمِينَهُ فَوْقَ يَسَارِهِ فَإِذَا غَابَتْ هَاهُنَا ذَهَبَتِ الْحُمْرَةُ مِنْ هَاهُنَا .
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Ahmad Bin Asheym, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws , said, ‘I heard him -asws saying: ‘The time for Al-Al-Maghrib is when the redness goes away from the east.