• I asked Ishaq again, saying: What about a non-Arab who invokes in Persian, or initiates the prayer in Persian? He said: "It is not permissible."

• I also asked Ishaq about a man who prostrates during supererogatory prayer and invokes in Persian? He said: "If he does not know anything [in Arabic], it is permissible," and he granted a concession regarding it.

1093 - Ubayd Allah ibn Mu'adh narrated to us, from his father, from Abu Hilal al-Rasibi, from Abdullah ibn Buraydah, who said: Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "No man learns Persian without becoming deceitful (khabb), and he does not become deceitful without his sense of chivalry (muru'ah) departing."

Chapter: Regarding one who breaks ritual purity (hadath) before delivering the Taslim

• I said to Ahmad ibn Hanbal: A man breaks ritual purity after he raises his head from the final rak'ah? He said: "He is still in prayer as long as he has not delivered the Taslim"; he holds the opinion that he must repeat it.

• Ahmad was asked again, and it was said: A man recited the Tashahhud and then broke ritual purity before delivering the Taslim? He said: "He must repeat it; because he is in prayer as long as he has not delivered the Taslim"; he follows the hadith of Ali, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): "Its conclusion is the Taslim," and the hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr was mentioned to him, but he rejected it and did not authenticate it.

• I asked Ahmad again, saying: A man forgot the Taslim in the prayer? He said: "He is in prayer as long as he has not delivered the Taslim." I said: What if he speaks? He said: "He must repeat the prayer; because the conclusion of the prayer is the Taslim."