[8] The time of the Midday (Zawwal)...

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub, from Minhal who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah -asws about the time in which it is not befitting for me that I pray the Optional Salāts when the midday comes. He -asws said: ‘One cubit to its like (of the shadow)’.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Ayoub, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘When the time for the Obligatory ( Salāt ) enters, shall I pray the Optional or begin with the Obligatory?’ So he -asws said: ‘It is preferred that you begin with the Obligatory, and rather delay Al-Zohar from the midday due to the reason of a Salāt of the repentants’.

From him, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Washa, from Aban Bin Usman, from Yahya Bin Abu Al A’ala, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘The midday Salāt is the Salāt of the repentant’.