Abandoning the Hometown
Issue No.1163- If a person abandons a place where he used to live and which was his hometown [i.e., he has no longer the intention to live there] he should shorten the prayer even though he sometimes goes there to visit his relatives and friends, and irrespective of whether he owns a property there and his relatives and family live there or not unless he intends to stay there for ten days, in the case of which, he should shorten his prayer while there. Similarly, if a person adopts a place other than his original home to be as his residence, and stays there for six months more or less, and then abandons it, he should shorten his prayer there irrespective of whether he has a property there or not.
