SALAWAT UPON THE HOLY INFALLIBLES

Within the recommended rites on Fridays, Shaykh al-Tusi, in his book of Misbah al-Mutahajjid, has mentioned the following:

A group of our companions have reported on the authority of Abu’l-Mufazzal al-Shaybani that Abu-Muhammad ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-’Abid related to them in al-Daliyah, saying: In the year 255, I asked my master Imam al-Hasan al-’Askari, peace be upon him, in his house in Surra-Man-Ra’a (Samarra’) to dictate to me an invocation of blessings upon the Prophet and his Successors, peace be upon him and them, after I had brought with me a big sheet of paper. The Imam (‘a) dictated to me orally, saying: Write down the following: