On the authority of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, who said: It was said:¹ Fasting while traveling is like breaking the fast while at home.²

2285 — Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, saying: Ḥammād ibn [Khālid]³ al-Khayyāṭ and Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us, both saying: Ibn Abī Dhiʾb narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, who said: The one who fasts while traveling is like the one who breaks the fast while at home.⁴

2286 — Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed me, saying: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī Dhiʾb narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf ————————————————————————————

¹ In one copy, in the margin of (K): “said.” And in (R) it appears as: “It was said.”
² Its chain of transmission is weak due to its discontinuity: Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf did not hear anything from his father. Maʿn is Ibn ʿĪsā al-Qazzāz, and Ibn Abī Dhiʾb is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and al-Zuhrī is Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihāb. It appears in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under number (2605). Following it, he said: This is an error. He corrected it to being a statement of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (not raised to the Prophet), as Ibn Ḥajar reported from him in *al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr* 2/205, and see *Fatḥ al-Bārī* 4/184.
It was also narrated by Ibn Mājah (1666) via Usāmah ibn Zayd, from al-Zuhrī, with this chain, raised to the Prophet. Usāmah ibn Zayd is al-Laythī, truthful but prone to error. It will follow in the next two narrations.
Al-Sindī said: His statement, “Fasting while traveling is like breaking the fast while at home,” means: like breaking the fast outside of Ramadan, so its import is that fasting is contrary to what is preferable; or [it means] in Ramadan, in which case its implication is that it is forbidden. The first is closer, and even so, the majority must interpret it as referring to a specific situation, such as when fasting exhausts one. And God knows best.
³ The word “Khālid” is not present in the copies.
⁴ Its chain of transmission is weak, like the preceding one. Abū ʿĀmir is ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAmr al-ʿAqadī. It appears in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under number (2606). It preceded in the previous narration.