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hadith 637
Hadith #
637
Book
Al-Kāfi
Volume
4
Section
71
Part
The Book of Fasting
Chapter
Saying Takbir (Allah Is Great Beyond Description) in the First Night of Shawwal
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī
۞
1. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abdillah from his father from Khalaf ibn Hammad from Sa‘id al-Naqqash who has said the following
“Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) said to me, ‘On al-Fitr (first day of the month of Shawwal), there is Takbir (saying ‘Allah is greater than what can be described’), but it is concealed.’ I (the narrator) then asked, ‘Where is it?’ He (the Imam) replied, ‘It is during the night of al-Fitr, in Maghrib and the last ‘Isha’, and in the Fajr salat (prayer) and in the salat of ‘Id, and then it is cut-off.’ I then asked, ‘How do I say it?’ He replied, 'say, ‘Allah is the greatest (beyond description), Allah is the greatest, there is no god but Allah, and Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, all praise belongs to Allah, Allah is greatest upon what He guided us.' This is in the words of Allah, the most Majestic and Glorious, “So you can complete the number’, (2:182) meaning, the fasts, ‘and that you should exclaim the Greatness of Allah for His having Guided you.” (2:185)
A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Asbat from Khalaf ibn Hammad a similar Hadith.
1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ خَلَفِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ النَّقَّاشِ قَالَ
قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) لِي أَمَا إِنَّ فِي الْفِطْرِ تَكْبِيراً وَلَكِنَّهُ مَسْتُورٌ قَالَ قُلْتُ وَأَيْنَ هُوَ قَالَ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْفِطْرِ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ وَالْعِشَاءِ الآخِرَةِ وَفِي صَلاةِ الْفَجْرِ وَفِي صَلاةِ الْعِيدِ ثُمَّ يُقْطَعُ قَالَ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ أَقُولُ قَالَ تَقُولُ الله أَكْبَرُ الله أَكْبَرُ لا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ الله وَالله أَكْبَرُ الله أَكْبَرُ وَلله الْحَمْدُ الله أَكْبَرُ عَلَى مَا هَدَانَا وَهُوَ قَوْلُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَلِتُكْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ يَعْنِي الصِّيَامَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا الله عَلى‏ ما هَداكُمْ. عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ خَلَفِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ مِثْلَهُ.
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