Hadith 23

not obligated in travel distance of a day, it could not be obligated in travel distance of a year, and that is because every day happening to be after this day, rather it is a peer of this day. If it is not obligated during this day, it cannot be obligated in its peer, when its peer was like it, there being no difference between the two’. If he says, ‘The travelling is difference, and that, travel of the cow is rather of four Farsakh’s, and travel of the horse is of twenty Farsakh’s. So why are you-asws making travel of a day as being of eight Farsakh’s? ’
It will be said: ‘Because eight Farsakh’s, it is a travel of the cameleer and the caravan, and it is the travel who travels with the cameleers and the caravans’. If he says, ‘Why has voluntary (optional Salats) of the day being neglected while voluntary (optional Salats) of the night are not neglected? ’
It will be said: ‘Because every Salat having not shortening in it, there is no shortening in its optional. Al-Maghrib has not shortening in it there is no shortening in what is after it from the optional Salat(s), and like what is the morning. There is no shortening in what is before it from the optional’. If he says, ‘So what is the matter the ‘Al-Atma’ (Al-Isha) is shortened and it’s Cycles aren’t neglected? ’
It will be said, ‘Those two Cycles aren’t from the fifty. Rather these are an increase in the fifty, voluntary, and let him complete with these instead of every Cycle from the Obligatory, two Cycles of the optional’. If he says, ‘Why is it allowed for the traveller and the sick to pray the night Salat in the beginning of a night? ’
It will be said, ‘Due to his pre-occupation and his weakness to guard his Salat, so the sick one can rest during time of his rest, and the traveller can be pre-occupied with his pre-occupation and his departure, and his journey’’. [38]