28-2 (The compiler of the book narrated) My father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar and Ahmad ibn Idris quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Imran al-Ash’ari, on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Abdullah, on the authority of Adam ibn Abdullah al-Ash’ari, on the authority of Zakariya ibn Adam that he had heard Abil Hassan Al-Ridha (MGB) say, “Prayer has four-thousand gates.”