the first: the previous verse * "there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer..." *, and he mentioned that it was revealed concerning the prayer of fear during the Medinan period. the second: ḥadīths, including his saying (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Indeed, Allāh has relieved the traveler of fasting and half of the prayer." It was narrated by the authors of the Sunan and others, and it is recorded in my "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (2083) and elsewhere. the third: he presented five explicit ḥadīths indicating that the shortening of the prayer was in Mecca when Jibrīl (ʿalayhi al-salām) descended upon the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and prayed the five prayers with him. The response in the previous order: 1 - As for the verse, he admitted (p. 20) that it was revealed after the Hijrah in the fourth or fifth year, and he further clarified this by saying (p. 21): "Rather, what happened was that there was a period exceeding three years between the increase of the resident's prayer and the shortening of the traveler's prayer, as mentioned earlier"! I say: with this explicit statement, he has demolished that title and the evidence he presented under it, and this is the first of them, for it means that the resident's prayer was ordained as two units, then increased in Medina, which perfectly aligns with the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah and especially the ḥadīth of the translation, and what the ḥāfiẓ inferred as mentioned earlier, contradicting his claim that it was ordained as four units in Mecca! 2 - The ḥadīths he mentioned and I referred to, and I conveyed one of them to the readers, because the response to it is a response to them, and it is in truth the same response to the previous verse, because the situation mentioned in the ḥadīth can be applied to both possibilities, whether it was