This is their difference regarding the time during which it is permissible for a traveler, if he resides in a country, to shorten his prayers. Abu Umar ibn Abd al-Barr narrated eleven sayings on this issue, which did not come to me at this time. Let him look at them in his books. Whoever wants to find out about them, let us mention from them what is easy for me to mention. So who said it? If the traveler intends to stay for four days, he should complete it, and someone else said fifteen days, and someone else said twenty days, and someone else said, if he intends to stay for more than four days. In my view, it is preferable in this matter to look at the length of the Prophet’s stay, may God bless him and grant him peace, in Mecca until he returned to Medina, as he was shortening it. During that period