Chapter on the Rulings of Congregational Prayer (the Minimum Number for Congregational Prayer, the Description of the Imam, Who Is to Be Followed and Who Is Not to Be Followed, Recitation Behind Both of Them, the Rulings of Those Led in Prayer, and Other Such Rulings Related to It)

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 3|Book 1|Chapter 3

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Volume 3, Book 1, Chapter 3

Chapter on the Rulings of Congregational Prayer (the Minimum Number for Congregational Prayer, the Description of the Imam, Who Is to Be Followed and Who Is Not to Be Followed, Recitation Behind Both of Them, the Rulings of Those Led in Prayer, and Other Such Rulings Related to It)

Hadith #36

اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ اِبْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ:« إِنْ كُنْتَ خَلْفَ اَلْإِمَامِ فِي صَلاَةٍ لاَ تَجْهَرُ فِيهَا بِالْقِرَاءَةِ حَتَّى تَفْرُغَ وَ كَانَ اَلرَّجُلُ مَأْمُوناً عَلَى اَلْقُرْآنِ فَلاَ تَقْرَأْ خَلْفَهُ فِي اَلْأَوَّلَتَيْنِ» وَ قَالَ« يُجْزِيكَ اَلتَّسْبِيحُ فِي اَلْأَخِيرَتَيْنِ» قُلْتُ أَيَّ شَيْءٍ تَقُولُ أَنْتَ قَالَ« أَقْرَأُ فَاتِحَةَ اَلْكِتَابِ»

Al-Husayn ibn Said from Safwan from Ibn Sinan from Abi Abdillah , peace be upon him, who said: Imam al-Sadiq said: “If you are behind the imam (of prayer) in a prayer in which the recitation is not done aloud, then remain silent until he finishes, and if the man (the imam of prayer) is trusted with the Qur’an, then do not recite behind him in the first two units.” And Imam said: “The glorification (tasbih) suffices you in the last two units.” I asked: “What do you yourself say?” Imam said: “I recite Surah al-Fatihah.”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 38