مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٣٢٢ - Sings Prayers
he should offer the lapsed Signs Prayers. but if he comes to know that
it was only a partial eclipse, it is not obligatory for him to perform
its lapsed prayers.
١٥٠٩. If some persons whose words cannot be
relied upon My that the sun or the moon has been eclipsed, and if a
person is not personally satisfied with what they say, and there is none
among them, who may be reliable, and consequently that person does not
offer the Signs Prayers, and it transpires later that what they said was
true, the person should offer the Signs Prayers in the case of complete
solar or lunar eclipse, but if a partial eclipse has taken.place, it is
not obligatory for him to offer the Signs Prayers. And the same rule
applies if two persons about whom it is not known as to whether they are
Adil, say that the sun or the moon has been eclipsed and it transpires
later that they were Aadil.
١٥١٠. If a person is satisfied with the
statement of persons, who know the time of solar or lunar eclipse in
accordance with the scientific rules, that the sun orthe moon has been
eclipsed he should, on the basis of obligatory precaution, offer Signs
Prayers. Moreover if such persons say that the sun or moon will be
eclipsed at suchand such time and the duration of the eclipse will be so
much and a person is satisfied with what they say, he should, on the
basis of obligatory precaution, act according totheir statement.
١٥١١. If a person realizes that the Signs
Prayers, offered by him was void, he should offer it again. And if the
time of Sings Prayers has passed he should offerits Qaza.
١٥١٢. If the Signs Prayers also becomes
obligatory on a person at the time of daily prayers, and if he has time
at his disposal for both the prayers, there is noharm in his offering
any one of them first, and if the time for one of them is short he
should offer that prayers first, and if the time for both of them is
short he shouldoffer the daily prayers first.