‘Abd al-Ghaffār, who narrated it from ‘Āṣim al-Aḥwal, from Abū ‘Uthmān, from Salmān, who said:

“The prayer was prescribed as two rak‘ahs [two rak‘ahs]. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed it in Mecca until he came to Medina, and he performed it in Medina for as long as Allah willed. Then two rak‘ahs were added to the prayer of residence, while the prayer of travel was left as it had been.”

Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Awsaṭ (2/31/2/5541, according to my numbering) and said: “No one narrated it from ‘Āṣim except ‘Amr, and it is not narrated from Salmān except through this chain of transmission.”

I say: Al-Haythamī (2/156) said: “It contains ‘Amr ibn ‘Abd al-Ghaffār, who is abandoned.”

Note: I supplied the addition, “two rak‘ahs,” in this hadith of Salmān from Majma‘ al-Zawā’id, just as I supplied it in the preceding hadith of al-Sā’ib from the printed edition of al-Maṭālib al-‘Āliyah (1/180). Its attribution of the hadith to Isḥāq has been omitted! It appears that the editor of the book, Shaykh al-A‘ẓamī, did not consult the copy of al-Maṭālib al-‘Āliyah containing its chains of transmission; otherwise, he would have remedied this omission and would not have fallen into the error of explaining the earlier statement in the hadith, “so he affirmed it,” as follows: “That is, Sa‘d ibn Sa‘īd affirmed it.” This is sheer error. The correct explanation is: “That is, Abū Usāmah affirmed it,” as is apparent from the context of its preceding chain of transmission (p. 745). He is Abū Usāmah Ḥammād ibn Usāmah, one of the trustworthy shaykhs of the imams al-Shāfi‘ī, Aḥmad, and Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh.

Benefit: The preceding hadiths indicate that the prayer of travel is an independent original ruling, and that it