He said: She interpreted[^12] as Othman did.

He said: She interpreted[^12] as Othman did.” Muslim mentioned Aa’isha’s tradition from another way that she said: “Allah had legislated the prayer as two rak’as and then He made it tamam in residence and it was fixed in travel as it had been legislated firstly.” If this tradition was true so it would be naturally that the prayer of the traveler when it was offered in four rak’as wouldn’t be valid if there was no divine order about that.

From the first, Allah had legislated the prayer to be two rak’as and then He fixed it for the traveler, so if the traveler offered it in four rak’as, he would be heretic exactly as if he had offered the Fajr prayer in four rak’as or offered the four-rak’a prayer in residence in two rak’as. From among the sayings of the infallible imams was this tradition narrated by Zurara bin A’yun and Muhammad bin Muslim. They asked Imam Baqir (s): “What do you say about the prayer in travel?

How and how many (rak’as) is it?” He said: “Allah says: (***And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer… 4:101) so taqseer is wajib in travel as tamam is wajib in residence.” They said: “We said to him: Allah says: ( there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer ) and doesn’t say: (Shorten the prayer!) So how…