Chapter on the Prayer During Travel

Sa’ad ibn Abdillah from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa'id from Faddalah from Aban ibn Uthman from Isma'il ibn al-Fadl, who said: I asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about a man who travelled from one land to another and only stayed in his villages and his estate. Imam عليه السلام said: “If you settle in your villages and estate, then complete the prayer, and if you are in other than your own land, then shorten (the prayer).”