'Since you are patient with regard to the five prayers, I shall regard them equivalent to fifty.

Salman the Persian (ra) who was afflicted by the Jews beating him and saying, 'Why do not you call upon Allah, Muhammad and Ali d thus save to speed up our perdition an you from our hands?!’ He kept saying to them, 'Patience is better. I rather plead to Allah to grant me patience, perhaps Allah will get out of your loins someone who will believe in Islam. If I implore Him to annihilate you all, such a believer will never come into being.’ He did not curse them. This went on till the veil between him and the Messenger of Allah ('a) was removed.  The Prophet ('s) ordered him to implore Allah against them, telling him that they would never produce a believer, as we read on p. 68 of the tafs’r work by Imam al-`Askari ('a). The case in the tafs’r work by Imam al-`Askari ('a) occurs in the explanation of the verse about 'those who believe in the unknown’ (Qur’an, 2:3). Anyone who likes may refer to it, for it is a timeless wonder. Nobody should find the case of Salman the Persian (ra) hard to believe because nobody should wonder about a man who emulated his masters so much that they told him he was one of them, Ahl al-Bayt ('a). In the same category falls the case of the mi`raj. The Prophet ('s) was required to perform fifty prayers, and he did not implore his Lord to reduce their number till prophet Moses ('a) suggested to him to do that. He kept imploring Him to decrease their number till their number was reduced to five. Moses asked him why he did not implore Him to reduce their number any more, whereupon he ('a) said to him, 'I am too shy because of imploring Him so many times.’ It was then that Allah inspired to him that 'Since you are patient with regard to the five prayers, I shall regard them equivalent to fifty.’ (Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 18, p. 348 with a variation of wording).