In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

Introduction
All praise belongs to Allah. We praise Him, seek His help, and ask His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils within ourselves and from the consequences of our deeds. Whomever Allah guides, none can misguide, and whomever He allows to stray, none can guide. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone, without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. May Allah shower abundant blessings and peace upon him, his family, his Companions, and all who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. To proceed:

This is a concise treatise on the Traveler’s Prayer. In it I have clarified: the definition of travel and the traveler; the various categories of travel; the etiquettes of travel; the fundamental ruling that a traveler shortens the prayer and that doing so is better than performing it in full; the distance that permits shortening; that the traveler begins shortening once he has passed beyond all inhabited houses of his village; the period of residence during which the traveler may continue to shorten; the ruling on shortening the prayer in Mina for the people of Mecca and for other pilgrims; and the permissibility of offering voluntary prayers while mounted.