Issue No. 1172- If a person, who has decided to stay at a place for ten days, engaged in offering a fast and abandons the idea of staying there after midday and has already offered a four rak‘at prayer, his fast, is correct, and he should offer complete prayer so long as he stays there. If he has not offered a four rak‘at prayer, the fast of that day is not valid and he should offer qaṣr prayer.
Issue No. 1173- If one doubts whether he had performed a four rak‘at prayer before becoming hesitant or before abandoning the idea of staying for ten days, he should offer qaṣr prayer.
Issue No. 1174- If a traveller starts offering prayer with the intention of offering qaṣr prayer and then decides in the middle of the prayer that he would stay there for ten days or more, he should complete the prayer in four rak‘ats. On the contrary, if he, who has decided to stay at a place for ten days, changes his mind while offering a four rak‘at prayer and has not yet started the third rak‘at, he should complete the prayer with two rak‘ats and shorten his succeeding prayers. But if he has gone into the rukū‘ of the third rak‘at, his prayer is void, and he should shorten his prayer as long as he is there.
Issue No. 1175- If a traveller who has decided to stay at a place for ten days, stays there for more than ten days, he should offer complete prayer as long as he does not start travelling, and it is not necessary that he makes a new intention for staying for a further ten days.
Issue No. 1176- A traveller who decides to stay at a place for ten days should offer the obligatory fast; he may also keep a recommended fast, and offer nāfilah (recommended prayer) of ẓuhr, ‘aṣr and ‘ishā’ prayer.
Issue No. 1177- If a traveller who has intended to stay at a place for ten days, but after the passing of ten days or offering a four rak‘at prayer, goes to a place which is less than four farsakhs and then returns he should perform complete prayer. If he wishes to go to a place which is less than eight farsakhs away and stay there for ten days, he should offer complete prayer on the way and also at that place. In case, however, the place he wants to go is eight farsakhs away or more, he should shorten his prayer on the way, and he should offer complete prayer where he intends to stay for ten days.
Issue No. 1178- If one decides to stay at a place for ten days, under the impression that his companions intend to stay there for ten days, but after offering a four-rak‘at prayer it transpires that they have not intended this, and he changes his mind as well, he should offer complete prayer so long as he is there.
Issue No. 1180- If a traveller intends to stay at a place for nine days or less, and after spending this period, he decides to stay there for another period of nine days or less, and in this way thirty days pass away, he should offer qaṣr prayer. He should offer complete prayer from the thirty-first day onwards.
Issue No. 1184- If a traveller knows that he should offer qaṣr prayer but does not know some of the details [e.g., he does not know that this rule is for the journeys of eight farsakhs] and offers complete prayer, the obligatory precaution is to repeat the prayer in a qaṣr form.
Issue No. 1186- If a person who must offer complete prayer, offers qaṣr prayer intentionally, forgetfully or by mistake, his prayer is void. Even if he had intended to stay at a place for ten days, but owing to not knowing the rule, he performed qaṣr prayer, the obligatory precaution is that he should repeat the prayer as complete.
Issue No. 1187- If a person begins offering a four rak‘at prayer, and recollects during prayer that he is a traveller, or that his journey is of eight farsakhs, he should complete the prayer in two rak‘ats provided that he has not gone into the rukū‘ of the third rak‘at. However, if he has gone into the rukū‘ of the third rak‘at, his prayer is void, and he should offer qaṣr prayer.
Issue No. 1188- If a person begins qaṣr prayer and remembers during the prayer that he is not a traveller, or his journey is not a journey in which prayer should be shortened, he should complete the prayer offering four rak‘ats and his prayer is correct.
