Some scholars have tried to prove the permissibility of breaking the fast by citing the sound report that the Prophet ﷺ travelled in Ramadan toward Mecca, kept the fast until he reached al-Kudayd, and then broke it—another wording says, “until he reached Kuraʿ al-Ghamīm.” Those who adduced this narration imagined that al-Kudayd and Kuraʿ lie near Medina, that the Prophet ﷺ began the day fasting in Medina, reached one of those two places before sunset, and thereupon broke his fast. Building a legal inference on that assumption is unfounded.

3. The third opinion holds that he may break his fast once he has placed his foot in the saddle. This was the view of Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī al-Ẓāhirī, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr also related it from Isḥāq. It contradicts what al-Tirmidhī transmitted from Isḥāq—that he may break his fast in his house before departing—unless one were to say that he set his foot in the saddle while still inside his home and then ate. The hadith of Anas runs counter to that, for it states that he called for food, ate, and only then mounted. Allah knows best.

4. The fourth view is that he may break his fast in his home on the very day he intends to set out. This was the position of Anas and, according to one report, of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī as well, and the compiler has already cited it from