Chapter on Recommended (Nafl) Prayers During Travel
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 3
وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَبِي اَلْخَطَّابِ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ سَيْفٍ اَلتَّمَّارِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا نَقْضِي صَلاَةَ اَلنَّهَارِ إِذَا نَزَلْنَا بَيْنَ اَلْمَغْرِبِ وَاَلْعِشَاءِ اَلْآخِرَةِ فَقَالَ« لاَ اَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِعِبَادِهِ حِينَ رَخَّصَ لَهُمْ إِنَّمَا فَرَضَ اَللَّهُ عَلَى اَلْمُسَافِرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ لاَ قَبْلَهُمَا وَ لاَ بَعْدَهُمَا شَيْءٌ إِلاَّ صَلاَةُ اَللَّيْلِ عَلَى بَعِيرِكَ حَيْثُ تَوَجَّهَ بِكَ»
And from him, from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab from Ja’far ibn Bashir from Hammad ibn Uthman from Sayf al-Tammar from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام. He said:
One of our companions said to me, “We used to make up the day prayers when we stopped between Maghrib and the final ‘ishaʾ.” So Imam عليه السلام said: “No. Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows best about His سبحانه وتعالى servants when He سبحانه وتعالى granted them a concession. Allah سبحانه وتعالى has only obligated upon the traveler two rak’ahs, there is nothing before them and nothing after them, except the night prayer on your camel, in whatever direction it takes you.”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 16
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 139