Hadith 8

(The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – Ja’far Bin Ali Bin Al-Hassan Al Kufi, from his grandfather Al-Hassan Bin Ali, from his grandfather Abdullah Bin Al Mugheira, from Al Sakuni, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws, from his-asws father-asws having said: ‘Seven (persons) should not shorten the Salat – the tax collector who goes around regarding his collection’ – then he-asws mentioned approximate to what had passed (above) except he-asws said: ‘And the shepherd and the Bedouin who seeks’, and ‘the man who seeks the prey (hunting) intend by it’, and in it’s end is (bandit), ‘cuts the way’’. [6]
And from him, from Muhammad Bin Musa Bin Al Mutawakkil, from Ali Bin Al-Husayn Al Sa’dabady, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah Al Narqy, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr raising it to, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Five (persons) should complete (Salat) whether they are in a journey or staying – an usher of riding animals, and the driver of the riding animals, and ‘Al-Ashtaqan’, and he is the mailman, and the shepherd, and the navigator (of a ship) because it is their work’’. [7]
And from him, from his father, from Musa Bin Ja’far Al Kumundany, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Zurara, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘Four (persons), the complete (Salat) is obligated upon them whether they are in a journey or staying – an usher of riding animals, and the driver of the riding animals, and ‘Al-Ashtaqan’ (and he is the mailman), and the shepherd, because it is their work’. Al-Sadouq said, ‘And ‘Al-Ashtaqan’, he is the mailman’’. [8]
Detail and clarification (Ahadeeth only)
And in a report by Is’haq Bin Ammar (in Al Tahzeeb) who said, ‘I asked him-asws about the navigator (of a ship) and the Bedouin, ‘Is shortening (of the Salat) upon them? ’ He-asws said: Their houses are not with them’’. And they argue with what is reported by the Sheykh, from Abdullah Bin Sinan (in Al Tahzeeb), from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The usher of the riding animals, if he does not stay in his house except five days and less, should shorten (Salat) in his journey and (pray) complete at night, and upon him are fasts of the month of Ramazan; and if there is a place for him in the city which he goes to for ten days and more, will shorten in his journey and break (not fast)’’. And a ‘Mursal’ Hadeeth by Yunus (in Al Tahzeeb) as well evidencing upon that whereby he-asws said: ‘But rather an usher of riding animals staying in his house or in the city which he enters more than tend day, upon him is the shortening (of the Salat)’’.