Accordingly, this sound line of reasoning confirms that the action of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is the most perfect course, that his guidance is the finest of all guidance, and that for a traveler to limit himself to the two obligatory rak‘ahs is better for him than to combine them with the two sunnah rak‘ahs.

From this it follows that when the Friday prayer is performed as a shortened noon prayer, it is not part of the Sunnah to attach to it the resident’s sunnah of noon; rather, it is treated like the traveler’s shortened noon prayer.

While on a journey the Prophet ﷺ would pray the two rak‘ahs of the dawn sunnah and the witr prayer. He would also pray on his mount, facing whichever direction it took, and would perform witr upon it, though he did not offer the obligatory prayers on it. This is because