١٣ - حدثنا أبي (رضي الله عنه)، قال: حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه إبراهيم ابن هاشم، عن حماد بن عيسى، قال: قال لي أبو عبد الله (عليه السلام) يوما: تحسن أن تصلي، يا حماد؟ قال: فقلت: يا سيدي، أنا أحفظ كتاب حريز في الصلاة، قال: فقال: لا عليك قم صل، قال: فقمت بين يديه متوجها إلى القبلة، فاستفحت الصلاة، وركعت وسجدت، فقال: يا حماد، لا تحسن أن تصلي، ما أقبح بالرجل أن يأتي عليه ستون سنة أو سبعون سنة، فما يقيم صلاة واحدة بحدودها تامة! قال حماد: فأصابني في نفسي الذل، فقلت: جعلت فداك، فعلمني الصلاة. فقام أبو عبد الله (عليه السلام) مستقبل القبلة منتصبا، فأرسل يديه جميعا على فخذيه، قد ضم أصابعه، وقرب بين قدميه حتى كان بينهما قدر ثلاث أصابع مفرجات، واستقبل بأصابع رجليه جميعا، لم يحرفهما عن القبلة بخشوع واستكانة، وقال: الله أكبر. ثم قرأ الحمد بترتيل، و (قل هو الله أحد)، ثم صبر هنيئة بقدر ما تنفس وهو قائم، ثم قال: الله أكبر. وهو قائم، ثم ركع وملا كفيه من ركبتيه منفرجات، ورد ركبتيه إلى خلف حتى استوى ظهره حتى لو صب عليه قطرة من ماء أو دهن لم تزل لاستواء ظهره، ومدا عنقه، وغمض عينيه، ثم سبح ثلاثا بترتيل، فقال: سبحان ربي العظيم وبحمده، ثم استوى قائما، فلما استمكن من القيام قال: سمع الله لمن حمده، ثم كبر وهو قائم، ورفع يديه حيال وجهه، ثم سجد، ووضع كفيه مضمومتي الاصابع بين ركبتيه حيال وجهه، فقال: سبحان ربي الاعلى وبحمده. ثلاث مرات، ولم يضع شيئا من بدنه على شئ، وسجد على ثمانية أعظم: الجبهة، والكفين، وعيني الركبتين، وأنامل إبهامي الرجلين، فهذه السبعة فرض، ووضع الانف على الارض سنة، وهو الارغام. ثم رفع رأسه من السجود، فلما استوى جالسا، قال: الله أكبر، ثم قعد على جانبه الايسر، قد وضع ظاهر قدمه اليمنى على باطن قدمه اليسرى، وقال: استغفر الله ربي وأتوب إليه. ثم كبر وهو جالس، وسجد السجدة الثانية، وقال كما قال في الاولى، ولم يستعن بشئ من جسده على شئ في ركوع ولا سجود، كان مجنحا، ولم يضع ذراعيه على الارض، فصلى ركعتين على هذا، ثم قال: يا حماد، هكذا صل: ولا تلتفت، ولا تعبث بيديك وأصابعك، ولا تبزق عن يمينك، ولا عن يسارك، ولا بين يديك (١).
My father  narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Ibrahim narrated to us from his father Ibrahim b. Hashim from Hammad b. `Isa. He said: Abu `Abdillah  said to me one day: Do you know how to pray, O Hammad? He said: I said: O my master! I comply with the book of Hariz about prayer. He said: So he  said: Worry not! Stand and pray. He said: So, I stood in front of him, facing the qibla. Then I commenced the prayer and I bowed and I prostrated. So, he  said:  O Hammad! You do not know how to pray. How repulsive is it for a man to have had sixty years or seventy years pass him by, and he has not established a single prayer with all its limits?! Hammad said: So, abasement befell me within and I said: May I be your sacrifice! Please teach me the prayer. So, Abu `Abdillah  stood facing the qibla, erect. Then he placed both his hands together on his thighs, his fingers joined together, and he drew his feet near until they were three digits apart. And he turned, with all the toes of his feet, neither of his feet deflected from the qibla, with submissiveness and complete surrender (tranquility), and said: Allah is the Greatest (Allaahu Akbar)! Then he recited Surat al-Hamd and qul huwallahu ahad with intonation (tartil). Then he paused a little for a measure of one breath while he was standing. Then he said: Allah is the Greatest (Allaahu Akbar) – while he was standing. Then he bowed and spread his palms over the knees and pushed his knees backwards until his back was straight; were a drop of water or fat to be poured on him, it would not slide down due to the straightening of his back and the pushing back of his knees, and he erected his neck and looked down. Then he glorified thrice with intonation and said: Allah listens to the one who praises Him (sami`allahu liman hamidah). Then he recited the takbir while he was standing and raised his hands opposite his face. And he prostrated and placed his hands on the ground prior to his knees and said: Glorified is my Lord, the Most High, and I praise Him (subhana rabbiya 'l-a`laa wa bi hamdih), thrice, and he did not place (i.e. rest) anything (any part) of his body against anything from it. And he prostrated upon eight major [parts]: the forehead and the palms and the kneecaps and the tips of the big toes of the feet and the nose; then these are seven, plenty (seven are required). And the positioning of the nose over the earth is recommended. And it is [out of] compulsion (i.e. the nose is forced to rub the ground when the forehead is on the ground). Then he raised his head from prostration and when he was seated, he said: Allah is the Greatest (Allahu akbar)! Then he sat on his left side and he placed the outside of his right foot over the inside of his left foot, and said: I seek forgiveness of Allah, my Lord and I turn towards (repent unto) Him (astaghfirullaha rabbi wa atubu ilayh). Then he recited the takbir while he was seated and he prostrated a second time and said what he had said in the first and he did not resort to anything from his body against another from it either in the ruku` or the sujud, and he was winged (i.e., the placement of his hands appeared as if there were wings on either side) and he did not place his arms on the ground. Then he prayed the second unit similarly, then said: O Hammad! Pray this way. And do not turn, nor play with your hands or your fingers and do not spit from your right nor your left nor in front of you.