Yazīd al-Hanāʾī said: "I asked Anas ibn Mālik about shortening the prayer, and I used to travel to Kūfah and pray two rakʿahs until I returned. Anas said..." and he mentioned it. I said: This is a good chain of narration; all its men are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim], except for al-Hanāʾī, who is only among the men of Muslim. A group of trustworthy narrators have reported from him, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (4/2/198) from his father: "He is a shaykh," and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (1/257) and once named his grandfather, saying: "Whoever says: Yazīd ibn Yaḥyá or ibn Abī Yaḥyá is mistaken." The ḥadīth was recorded by Muslim (2/145), Abū Dāwūd (1201), and Ibn Abī Shaybah (2/108/1/2), and from him by Abū Yaʿlá in "his Musnad" (folio 99/2) through various chains from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, excluding al-Hanāʾī's statement: "and I used to travel to Kūfah... until I returned." This is an authentic addition, and because of it, I have included the ḥadīth. Likewise, Abū ʿAwānah recorded it (2/346) through the route of Abū Dāwūd (who is al-Ṭayālisī), who said: Shuʿbah narrated to us with it. Al-Ṭayālisī did not narrate it in "his Musnad." A farsakh is three miles, and a mile on land is the extent of one's vision because the sight inclines away from it on the surface of the earth until perception ceases. Al-Jawharī confirmed this, and it is said: its limit is to look at a person on flat land and not know whether they are a man or a woman, whether they are coming or going, as in "al-Fatḥ" (2/467). According to the estimation of some contemporary scholars, it equals 1,680 meters. The fiqh of the ḥadīth indicates that if a traveler travels a distance of three farsakhs (and a farsakh is approximately..