Chapter on Ruling of the Traveller and the Sick Person Regarding Fasting

Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Faddal, from al-Abbas ibn Amir and Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Hakim, all together from Aban ibn Uthman al-Ahmar, from Zurarah, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu Ja’far عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘one who goes out from his family (home) with falcons (al-suqurah) and dogs, amusing himself for two or three nights. Does he shorten his prayer or not?’ Imam عليه السلام said: “He does not shorten. He only went out for amusement.”