Hadith 37

bedience (of Allah‑azwj), like the hunting, and the recreation, and assisting the oppressor, and like that is the navigator (seaman), and the farmer, and the cameleer, there is no shortening in the Salat nor in the fasting. And if you travel to a place a distance of four Farsakh’s and you don’t intend the return from your same day, you are with the choice, if you like you pray complete and if you like you shorten; and if your journey was less than four Farsakh’s, then the completion is obligated upon you. When you enter a city and intend the staying at it for ten days, then complete the Salat and the fasting, and if you had intended less than ten days, upon you is the shortening; and if you don’t know what your stay at it would be, so you are saying, ‘I shall go out today’, and tomorrow’, upon you is to shorten up to the expiry of thirty days, then you pray complete after that, and even if it were one Salat. And when the shortening is obligated upon you in the Salat or the completion necessitates you regarding the fasting, similar to it, and if you enter a town and there is a portion (dwelling) for you at it, pray the compete Salat; and if you go out from your house, then shorten until you return to it. And know that the completer during the journey is like the shortener during the staying, and the completeness is not Permissible during the journey except for the one whose journey was in disobedience to Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, or a journey to hunt. The one who goes out to hunt, upon him is the completeness when his hunting was for frivolities and vanity (for sport); and when his hunting was for the trading, upon him is the completeness regarding the Salat, and the shortening in the fasting; and when his hunting was out of desperation to return with it to his dependants, upon him is the shortening in the Salat and the fasting. And if a traveller was from the ones, wealth was obligated upon him from his way to the hunting, the completion is obligated upon him to seek the prey. If he returned with his prey to the road, upon him is the shortening during his return. And if you had prayed a complete Salat during the journey, then you remembered it while you are within its timing, upon you is the repeating; and if you had remembered it after expiry of the time, there is nothing upon you; and if you had completed it due to ignorance, there isn’t anything upon you in what has passed nor is there repeating upon you except if you happened to have heard the Hadeeth. And you had shortened in your town out of forgetfulness, then you remembered while you were within its timing or in other than its timing, upon you is making up (Qaza) of what you had missed out from it’. And it is reported that the one who fasts during his illness, or during his journey, or prays the complete Salat, upon him is the making up (Qaza) except if he happens to be ignorant regarding it, so there wouldn’t be anything upon him’’. [54]