Mansūr (1), on the authority of Nu‘aym ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Mujmir (2), that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb, may Allah be pleased with him, ordered that the mosque—the mosque of Medina—be perfumed with incense every Friday at midday. I say: This is why Nu‘aym (3) was called al-Mujmir (the one who perfumes with incense) (4).
Sixteenth: On Friday, anyone obliged to attend the Friday prayer may not travel after its prescribed time has begun until he has performed it. As for travelling before that time, scholars hold three opinions, all explicitly reported from Ahmad. The first (5): This too is impermissible (6). The second: It is permissible. The third: It is permissible only for jihad (7).
As for al-Shāfi‘ī’s school, he holds that setting out on a journey on Friday after the sun has passed its zenith is forbidden. Within his school there are two juristic views concerning travel undertaken in obedience to Allah. The first is that it is forbidden, which is the view preferred by al-Nawāwī (8)
(1) As in al-Sunan wa-l-Ahkām by al-Diyā’ al-Maqdisī (2175). Ibn Abī Shayba (7523), Abū Ya‘lā (190), and Ahmad ibn ‘Alī al-Umawī al-Marwazī in al-Jumu‘a wa-Fadluhā (33) also transmitted, through ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar al-‘Umarī—who has some weakness as a transmitter—from Nāfi‘, from Ibn ‘Umar, that ‘Umar used to perfume the mosque with incense every Friday. See also Musannaf Ibn Abī Shayba (5586).
(2) In Mīm: “from Nu‘aym ibn ‘Atā’.” This is an error and is not in the copyist’s handwriting. Apparently, some words from this line and the preceding one were lost through damp or some other cause, and someone supplied them as he thought fit.
(3) Mīm-Bā’: “Nu‘mī”; likewise in the Maymaniyya edition and subsequent editions.
(4) Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (29/488).
(5) Jīm, Mīm-Bā’, Nūn: “ahaduhā (one of them).”
(6) “Also” is omitted from the printed editions.
(7) See al-Riwāyatayn wa-l-Wajhayn (1/187). The copyist copied the text in Sād from this point to the end of fol. 108a a second time on fols. 109–116. There are differences between the text and its duplicate, which we have designated by the siglum (Sād-Mīm).
(8) Jīm, Mīm-Bā’, Nūn: “al-Nawawī.”