and in a narration from him: that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar would pray behind the imām in Minā four [units], but when he prayed by himself, he would pray two [units]. Ibn Khuzaymah narrated it in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (954) through another route from Ibn ʿUmar. Al-Ṭaḥāwī also included it in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/244) through the route of Mālik, and before him, Imām Muḥammad in his "Muwaṭṭaʾ" (pp. 127-128) said: "And this is what we adhere to when the imām is a resident and the man is a traveler, and it is the opinion of Abū Ḥanīfah ﵀." His statement: "when the imām is a resident..." implies—and the implications of the elders are considered by them!—that if the imām is a traveler and completes [the prayer]—as some of the Shāfiʿīs do—then the traveling follower behind him shortens and does not complete, which is contrary to what Ibn ʿUmar ﵄ did, and others from the Companions followed him in this, among them ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd—whose opinions the Ḥanafīs mostly adopt—for even though he used to criticize ʿUthmān ﵁ for completing the prayer in Minā and reproach him for it as in the "Ṣaḥīḥayn," he nevertheless prayed four [units] as in "Sunan Abī Dāwūd" (1960) and "al-Bayhaqī" (3/144) through the route of Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah from his elders that ʿAbd Allāh prayed four [units]. It was said to him: You criticized ʿUthmān and then prayed four [units]? He said: Disagreement is evil. This suggests that he prayed four [units] alone, and it is possible that he prayed them behind ʿUthmān, and the narration of al-Bayhaqī is explicit in that, so its indication of the intended meaning is a stronger indication, as is not hidden from the scholars. Among them is Salmān al-Fārisī, for Abū Yaʿlā al-Kindī narrated: "Salmān went out with thirteen men from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ on an expedition, and he was..