and the prayer in times of fear in the Quran, but we do not find the prayer of travellers in the Quran?” Ibn ‘Umar replied: “My brother, Allah Most High sent Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, when we knew nothing. We therefore simply do as we saw Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, do.”
Anas (1) said: “We left Medina with the Prophet (2), peace and blessings be upon him, for Mecca. He continued to pray two units at a time until we returned to Medina.”
Ibn ‘Umar said: “I accompanied the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he never prayed more than two units while travelling; the same was true of Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, and ‘Uthmān.”
All these hadiths are authentic (3).
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His practice, peace and blessings be upon him, when travelling was to confine himself to the obligatory prayers. It is not recorded that he offered the regular sunnah prayers before or after them, apart from the sunnah prayer of Fajr and Witr (4), for he