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 #93

رَوَى سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَلْحَمِيدِ اَلنَّخَعِيِّ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ إِنِّي أُصَلِّي فِي اَلطَّاقِ يَعْنِي اَلْمِحْرَابَ فَقَالَ« لاَ بَأْسَ إِذَا كُنْتَ تَتَوَسَّعُ بِهِ»

Sa’ad ibn Abdillah narrated from Musa ibn al-Hasan from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid al-Nakhai from Sayf ibn Umayrah from Mansur ibn Hazim, who said: I said to Abu Abdillah , peace be upon him: “I pray in the ‘taq’ meaning the ‘mihrab’.” Imam said: “There is no harm if you have enough space in it.”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 58