Those who said: the prayer is shortened only on a long journey

Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The prayer is shortened only on a journey for Hajj or jihad.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Let not your going out to the outskirts of the city deceive you regarding your prayer, for these places are part of your city, Kufa.

Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote in one of his letters: Amma ba'd! News has reached me that some of you go out to the outskirts of the city to graze your animals, or to water them, or for trade, and you shorten the prayer. Let them not do so, for only one who is setting out on a long journey or facing an enemy shortens the prayer.

Al-Awwam said: Ibrahim (al-Taymi) held that the prayer is shortened only on a journey for Hajj, jihad or Umrah.

Ibn Sirin said: The early generations used to say: The prayer is shortened only on a journey on which provisions and water-skins are carried along.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Let not your going out to the outskirts of the city (for some need) deceive you regarding your prayer, for these places are part of your city, Kufa.

Sayyiduna Mu'adh, Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them) said: Let not your going with your livestock to the mountain tops or into the valleys deceive you regarding the prayer, so that you start considering it a journey. No, and there is no honour in it. Permission to shorten the prayer is only for a long, definite journey made from one horizon to another.