and the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh, and he prayed the dawn prayer at Al-Abtah on the eighth day. He used to shorten the prayer during these days, and there was consensus regarding his residency. He said: "So if he has resolved to reside as the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) resided, he shortens; and if he has resolved to reside for longer than that, he completes." Al-Athram said: "I heard Abu Abd Allah mentioning the hadith of Anas regarding the consensus on residency for the traveler. He said: 'It is a statement that not everyone understands.' And regarding his saying: 'The Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) stayed for ten [days] shortening the prayer,' he said: 'The Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) arrived on the morning of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh [day].' Then he said: 'And the eighth, the Day of Tarwiyah, and the ninth and the tenth.' The meaning of the hadith of Anas is only that he calculated the stay of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) in Mecca and Mina; otherwise, there is no other interpretation for it in my view. These are four days, and the dawn prayer on the Day of Tarwiyah during them totals twenty-one prayers in which he shortened (12). This indicates that whoever stays for twenty-one prayers shortens, and this exceeds four days. This is explicit in opposition to the statement (13) of those who limited it to four (14) days. And the statement of the scholars of opinion: "We do not know of any dissenter among the Companions regarding them," is incorrect. We have already mentioned the disagreement regarding it reported from them, and we have mentioned from Ibn Abbas himself the opposite of what they attributed to him. It was reported by Sa'id in his Sunan, and I did not find what they attributed to him therein. As for the hadith of Ibn Abbas regarding the nineteen-day residency, its interpretation is that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) did not resolve to reside [permanently]. Ahmad said: "The Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) stayed in Mecca for eighteen [days] during the time of the Conquest, because he intended [to go to] Hunayn, and there was no resolution to reside there (16)." This is the residency which Ibn Abbas narrated, and Allah knows best.

Section: Whoever intends a specific town and arrives there without having resolved to reside in it for a period during which