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BY the name of Allah most gracious most merciful
This paper is about "The different opinions about the traveling where the prayer being shorten" of the Imam (Mohammed Bin Ali Al Shawkani), which is a juristic manuscript of Al Dhahiri doctrine, in which he presents some of the rules that concern travelling:
- The travel where the prayer being shorten.
- The distance which make the shortening of the prayer possible.
- The kind of traveling in which the prayer being shorten.
- The period of the shortening in the prayer during the travel.
And it was clear during the presenting of the rules and sayings that: The preponderant about the matter of the distance which allow shortening the prayer is what the Dhahirians and others of not specifying the distance to make the shortening possible and it is possible to shorten at all what it calls travel whether it is lexical or customary due to the strength of their evidence and the weakness of the others', and also because the others' evidence is not clear enough.

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