Issue No.1147- If a person whose profession is travelling, travels for another purpose, e.g., for ḥajj and Zīyārat (pilgrimage), etc., he should, like other travellers, shorten his prayer. However, if the driver hires out his vehicle for pilgrimage, and at the same time performs pilgrimage himself as well, he should offer complete prayer.
Issue No.1149- A person whose job for a part of the year is travelling, e.g., a driver who drives during winter or summer, should offer complete prayer during his journeys.
Issue No.1148- Ḥajj guides, caravan leaders and executives in charge of ḥajj groups etc. should offer complete prayer, provided that travelling is counted as a part of their job or a preliminary to their profession and this lasts for a considerable period of time [like several months].
Issue No.1151- If a person whose profession is travelling, stays in a place for ten days or more, [irrespective of whether that place is his hometown or not, and whether he has intended to stay there for ten days from the very outset or not] he should perform qaṣr prayer during his first journey following his stop. However, if he doubts whether he had stayed for ten days or not, he should offer complete prayer.
Issue No.1152- A person who has not adopted a hometown (waṭan) for himself, and tours different cities, should offer complete prayer.
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Issue No.1162- If a person lives in two places, e.g., he lives in one city for six months, and in another city for another six months, both of them are considered to be his hometowns and it is even possible that one may have three hometowns.
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.
Issue No.1165- What was said in the previous issue about intending to stay at a place for ten days means that one should intend to stay there for ten “days” therefore the night before and the night after this are not included. Therefore, as soon as he determines that he will stay there from the fajr adhān on the first day up to the maghrib time of the tenth day, he should offer complete prayer. Likewise, he should offer complete prayer, if he intends to stay there from the midday of the first day up to midday of the eleventh day.
Issue No.1166- A traveller who intends to stay at a place for ten days can stay at a few places provided that their distance is so little and it may be said that he is not travelling (for example, one or two kilometres or more). There is no difference between small cities or big cities. That is to say, the same rule applies to both “great cities” and “small cities” with no difference between them.
Issue No.1167- If a traveller who wants to stay at a place for ten days, has decided at the very outset, to travel to the surrounding places during the period of ten days, and if the place he wants to go to is not so far to be reckoned as a part of the journey, he should offer complete prayer. However, if it is so far that it will be counted part of the journey; he should offer qaṣr prayer during the whole ten days.
Issue No.1168- If a traveller has decided to stay at a place for ten days, but at the same time, considers it probable that he may have to leave earlier because of some reason, if then the probability is so low that it is ignored, he should offer complete prayer. In case however, the probability is high he should offer shortened prayer.
