among the travellers, while the resident townspeople complete their prayer as four-rakʿah ẓuhr, adding on to what they have already performed and not repeating it. This was reported by Ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam; it is likewise what Mālik intended in the Muwattaʾ, and it is the soundest position on the matter.

Others have said that the residents must repeat the prayer whereas the travelling imam need not. A second opinion requires both him and them to repeat, and a third view obliges everyone—travellers and residents alike—to repeat the prayer within its time.