قُلْتُ لَهُ أَ رَأَيْتَ مَنْ قَدِمَ بَلْدَةً إِلَى مَتَى يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُقَصِّراً وَ مَتَى يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يُتِمَّ قَالَ إِذَا دَخَلْتَ أَرْضاً فَأَيْقَنْتَ أَنَّ لَكَ بِهَا مُقَاماً عَشَرَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَأَتِمَّ الصَّلَاةَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَدْرِ مَا مُقَامُكَ بِهَا تَقُولُ غَداً أَخْرُجُ أَوْ بَعْدَ غَدٍ فَقَصِّرْ مَا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ أَنْ يَمْضِيَ شَهْرٌ فَإِذَا تَمَّ لَكَ شَهْرٌ فَأَتِمَّ الصَّلَاةَ وَ إِنْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَخْرُجَ مِنْ سَاعَتِكَ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Sh<span class="iTxt">Azaan</span>, altogether from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz Bin Abdullah, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘What is your<sup>asws</sup> view of the one who comes back to a city, up to when is it befitting for him that he would happen to be shortening (the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>), or when would it be befitting for him that he prays complete (Salāt)?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When you enter a land, so you are convinced that for you there is a stay of ten days in it, so pray complete <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>; and if you do not know what your stay would be in it, you are saying, ‘I shall go out tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow’, so shorten (the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>) what is between you and your going, for a month. So when a month is complete for you, then pray the complete the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, and even if you intend to go out from that very moment’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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