eight kilometers), he is permitted to shorten the prayer. Al-Khaṭṭābī said in "Maʿālim al-Sunan" (2/49): "If the ḥadīth is confirmed, then the three farsakhs would be the limit for shortening the prayer, but I do not know of any jurist who says this." In this statement, there are points to consider: First, the ḥadīth is confirmed as mentioned earlier, and it suffices that Muslim included it without weakening it. Second, the lack of knowledge of any jurist who said this does not harm the ḥadīth nor prevent acting upon it, because the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Third, its narrator Anas ibn Mālik (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) supported it, and Yaḥyá ibn Yazīd al-Hanāʾī, who narrated from him, gave a fatwá based on it as mentioned earlier. In fact, it is confirmed from some Companions to shorten the prayer at a distance less than this. Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated (2/108/1) from Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn Khalīdah from Ibn ʿUmar who said: "The prayer is shortened at a journey of three miles." Its isnād is authentic as I clarified in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (number 561). Then he narrated from another route from him that he said: "I travel for an hour of the day and shorten [the prayer]." Its isnād is authentic, and it was authenticated by al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Fatḥ" (2/467). Then he narrated from him (2/111/1) that: "He used to stay in Mecca, and when he went out to Miná, he shortened [the prayer]." Its isnād is also authentic. This is supported by the fact that the people of Mecca, when they went out with the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) to Miná during the Farewell Pilgrimage, shortened [the prayer]