LessonsThe Traveller’s Prayer: Journey Distance, Qasr, Residence and Make-upQuiz

The Hanafi benchmark is three days of ordinary travel. Al-Shafi‘i discusses two moderate days, expressed also as sixteen farsakhs. The Maliki threshold is given in four burud.

These approaches differ over the legal threshold for a journey, not over the existence of travel concessions.

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Differences over qualifying distance

The Traveller’s Prayer: Journey Distance, Qasr, Residence and Make-up

The Hanafi benchmark is three days of ordinary travel. Al-Shafi‘i discusses two moderate days, expressed also as sixteen farsakhs. The Maliki threshold is given in four burud.

These approaches differ over the legal threshold for a journey, not over the existence of travel concessions.