Those Who Do or Do Not Have to Break Their Fast on a Journey
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 2|Chapter 50
7ـ حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ قُلْتُ الرَّجُلُ يُشَيِّعُ أَخَاهُ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ الْيَوْمَ وَالْيَوْمَيْنِ قَالَ يُفْطِرُ وَيَقْضِي قِيلَ لَهُ فَذَلِكَ أَفْضَلُ أَوْ يُقِيمُ وَلا يُشَيِّعُهُ قَالَ يُشَيِّعُهُ وَيُفْطِرُ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ حَقٌّ عَلَيْهِ.
7. Humayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from ibn Sama‘ah, from ‘Iddah from Aban ibn ‘Uthman from Zurarah, from abi Ja'far عليه السلام: “I asked about a man who escorts his brother in the month of Ramadan for a distance of one day’s journey or two days.“ He (the Imam) said, ‘He should break his fast and complete its Qada’ (compensatory fast).’ It then was asked, ‘Is escorting more virtuous or is staying home to fast more virtuous?‘ He replied, ‘Escorting and breaking the fast is more virtuous; it is a right on him.”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/331)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, pp. 86, 87