Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, as noted above. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “The scholars agree that someone who plans to travel in Ramadan may not spend the night having resolved to break the fast, for a person does not become a traveller by intention alone; he is only deemed a traveller once he actually sets out.” That concludes al-ʿIrāqī’s words.

Al-Bukhārī records from Ibn ʿAbbās: “The Prophet ﷺ left Madinah in Ramadan with ten thousand of the Muslims. He and they continued to fast until they reached al-Kudayd, whereupon he broke his fast and they broke theirs.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar remarked: “If a person begins the day fasting in his hometown, then sets out on a journey during the day, is he allowed to break the fast that same day? The majority say he may not. Aḥmad and Isḥāq held that he may, and al-Muzanī adopted that view, citing this hadith as evidence.” He was told that his reliance on the report was due to the assumption that the Prophet ﷺ broke the fast on the very day he left Madinah. This is not so, for several days’ march lie between Madinah and al-Kudayd. Nor does the hadith of Abū Baṣrah al-Ghifārī—transmitted by Aḥmad and Abū Dāwūd through the path of ʿUbayd ibn Jubayr, who said, “I boarded…”—provide any support for the opposing opinion.