Allah, The Mighty and Majestic, has prescribed a dispensation for shortening the prayer which has four unitsto a two-units prayer during travel, as a means to alleviate the hardship of travelling for His servants. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ shortened his prayer[s] while traveling; as likewise, so did all of his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them). In this hadeeth, the venerable Companion, Anas ibn Maalik(may Allah be pleased with him) reports that they had set out with the Prophet traveling from al-Madeenah towards Makkah on the Farewell Pilgrimage, as indicated by the report [narrated] in Saheeh Muslim. The Prophet ﷺ continued praying Dhuhr, ʿAsr, and ʿIshaa’ shortened to two units [each] until he ﷺ returned to al-Madeenah again. They [all] stayed in Makkah for ten days; and the Prophet ﷺ did not leave out the shortening of the prayers during his stay in Makkah - and kept taking the concession of Allah, The Most Praised and Almighty, which allowed him to do so for the length of his travels. In Saheehal-Bukhaaree and Saheeh Muslim, it is narrated on the authority of al-ʿAlaa’ ibn al-Haḍramee that the Prophet ﷺ prohibited the immigrants(those on the pilgrimage) from staying in Makkah for over three days after completing the rituals of the Hajj. The coupling of the aforementioned narration with the hadeeth [in discussion] which [states] that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in Makkah for ten days shortening the prayers [highlights]: that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not stay in Makkah four days at a single location; because, when he ﷺ came to Makkah on the fourth of DhulHijjah, he did not stay there daily after arriving. The days of entering Makkah and setting out towards Minaa are excluded from the count. Afterwards, he remained in Minaa. Then, he ﷺ travelled to Mount ʿArafaat, and recommenced [journeying] and stayed in Muzdalifah. After [staying the night there], he ﷺ departed to Minaa, then performed [more] of his rituals for the Hajj - and subsequently headed towards Makkah so that he could circumambulate the Kaʿbah; then returned to Minaa thereafter, where he stayed for three days shortening the prayer while there. Finally, he ﷺ left from there after noon on the third day of Tashreeq. .