Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1397b
"عن نافع أن عمرَ بن الخطاب كتب إلى عمالِه: إِنَّ أهمَّ أمرِكم عندى الصلاةُ، من حَفِظَها أو حافَظ عليها حَفِظَ دينه، ومن ضيَّعها فهو لمِا سواها أضيعُ، ثم كتب أن صلُّوا الظهر إذا كان الْفَئُ ذِراعًا إلى أن يكون ظلُّ كلِّ أحدِكم مثلَه، والعصرَ والشمسُ بيضاءُ نقيةٌ قدر ما يسير الراكبُ فرسخين أو ثلاثةً، والمغربَ إذا غَرَبت الشمسُ، والعشاءَ إذا غابَ الشفقُ إلى ثلثِ الليل، فمن نام فلا نامت عينُه، والصبحَ والنجومُ باديةٌ مشتبكةٌ، فمن نام فلا نامت عينُه".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Nāfʿ n ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Ktb Lá ʿMālih
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Nafi' narrated that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to his governors: 'The most important of your affairs to me is the prayer. Whoever preserves it or guards it preserves his religion, and whoever neglects it is more neglectful of what is other than it.' Then he wrote: 'Pray Zuhr when the shadow is one cubit, until the shadow of each one of you is equal to his height; and 'Asr while the sun is white and clear, the distance a rider travels two or three farsakh; and Maghrib when the sun sets; and 'Isha' when the twilight disappears, until a third of the night; whoever sleeps, may his eye not sleep. And Fajr while the stars are visible and intertwined; whoever sleeps, may his eye not sleep.'"
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Notes
مالك، [عب] عبد الرازق [ق] البيهقى في السنن
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