Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26702

Abdul-Wahhab bin Abdul-Hakam Al-Warraq Al-Baghdadi told us, Yahya bin Sulaym told us, on the authority of Ubayd Allah, on the authority of Nafi’, on the authority of Ibn Umar, He said, “I traveled with the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and Abu Bakr, Omar, and Uthman, and they used to pray the noon and afternoon prayers, two rak’ahs, not two rak’ahs.” They pray before it or after it. Abdullah said, “If I had been praying before or after it, I would have completed it.” He said, in the chapter about Omar Ali, Ibn Abbas, Anas, Imran bin Husayn, and Aisha. Abu Issa said: The hadith of Ibn Umar is a good, strange hadith. We do not know it except those who The hadith of Yahya bin Sulaym is like this. Muhammad bin Ismail said: This hadith was narrated on the authority of Ubayd Allah bin Umar, on the authority of a man from the family of Suraqa, on the authority of Abdullah bin Omar. Abu Issa said, and it was narrated on the authority of Atiya al-Awfi, on the authority of Ibn Omar, that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was He does voluntary travel before and after prayer. It has been authentically reported on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that he used to shorten his travels, as did Abu Bakr, Omar, and Othman. issued by his caliphate. This is acted upon according to most of the people of knowledge among the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and others. It has been It was narrated on the authority of Aisha that she used to complete the prayer while travelling. And to act according to what was narrated on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions, which is the opinion of Al-Shafi’i. And Ahmad and Ishaq, except that Al-Shafi’i says that shortening it is a license for him to travel, so if he completes the prayer, it is sufficient for him.