مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٢٨٠ - Prayers of a Traveller
then to cover another ٤ farsakh to return home, or to go to a place,
where he intends stayingfor ١٠ days, he should shorten his prayers.
١٢٩٠. A person, who does not know how many
farsakh his journey is (for example, if he travels to rind out something
which has been lost and does not know how muchhe should travel to find
it out) should offer complete prayers. However. if the return journey up
to his home or up to a place, where he intends staying for ١٠ days, is
٨farsakh or more. he should. offer shortened prayer. Moreover, if he
makes an intention, while travelling, that he will perform outward
journey coveting ٤ farsakh and alsoreturn journey covering ٤ farsakh, he
should shorten his prayers.
١٢٩١. A traveller should offer shortened prayers
only when he has determined to travel ٨ farsakh. Hence, if a person
goes outside the city and, for example, heintends performing a journey
of ٨ farsakh if he finds a companion, he should offer shortened prayers,
if he is sure that he will find a companion, but should offer
completeprayers, if he is not sure about it.
١٢٩٢. Though a person, who intends to travel ٨
farsakh, may cover only a short distance every day. yet he should
shorten his prayers, but when he reaches a pointwhere he cannot hear the
Azan of his town, and the people of his town cannot see him (and the
sign of the people or his town not seeing him is that he himself may not
be ableto see them) he should shorten his prayers. However, if he
covers a very short distance every day so that the people may not say
usually that he is a traveller he shouldoffer complete prayers and the
recommended precaution is that he should offer shortened as well as
complete prayers.
١٢٩٣. If a person who is under the control of
another person while going on a journey (for example, a servant, who is
travelling with his master) knows that hisjourney is ٨ farsakh, he
should offer shortened prayers. and if he does not know this, he should