These reports and what is similar to them regarding the permissibility of intercourse for the traveller in the month of Ramadan are to be understood as referring to one whose desire overcomes him, and who is not able to be patient with it, and who fears for himself entering into something prohibited. At that time, intercourse with those who are lawful was permitted for him. As for one who is able to be patient concerning that, he has no right to have intercourse, according to what we have already presented. In addition to this, there is nothing in any of these reports stating that the traveller may have intercourse by night or by day. Rather, they have come stripped of any connection to the mention of time in them, and it is possible that what is intended by them is by night, not by day. However, there has come in some of the hadiths that which includes mention of the day, so the interpretation of it is what we have mentioned. He narrated that (in the following hadith):
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