The Licenses of Travel
Question :
What are the licenses of travel?
Answer:
The licenses of travel are four:
1. Offering the four-Rak'ah prayers as two.
2. Breaking one's fast during Ramadhan.
3. Wiping over the Khuffs for three days and three nights, starting from the time of the first wiping.
4. Nullification of the need to offer the fixed Sunnah prayers of Zuhr, Maghrib and 'Isha'. As for the fixed Sunnah of Fajr and the supererogatory prayers, they remain prescribed and preferred.
So the traveller should offer night prayer, the fixed Sunnah of Fajr, the two Rak'ahs of Adh-Dhuha, and the Sunnah of Wudhu', the two Rak'ahs of salutation upon entering the mosque, the two Rak'ahs upon returning from a journey, because it a part of the Sunnah for a person to offer two Rak'ahs in the House of Allah (the mosque) before entering his home. Likewise the rest of the supererogatory prayers are still prescribed for the traveller, with the exception of what I mentioned earlier, and they are: the fixed Sunan of Zuhr, Maghrib and Tsha', because the Prophet used to offer these three regular Sunnah prayers.
Source:
Ibn 'Uthaimin
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 2 Pages 433-434
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