A person travels for work more than 10 days a month, completing and fasting while traveling. However, due to certain circumstances, they have only been traveling for work once or twice a month for several months, with plans to return to traveling for ten days each month once the circumstances change. The question is whether they should shorten or complete their prayers during their limited travels.
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may God protect him):
Yes, a frequent traveler during irregular breaks remains on the complete prayer. However, during regular breaks, if the break is long, such as two months, and the traveler is considered not to be a frequent traveler, they will not be subject to the rules of a frequent traveler. If the break is short, like two weeks, they remain classified as a frequent traveler.
Source: The Legal Office of His Eminence Sayyid Sistani, Lebanon, Question No. 10.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei (may God protect him):
You must complete your prayers during your work travels, and it is not required for the travel to be ten days a month. However, if you stay in your homeland or elsewhere for ten days—whether the stay was intended or not—you will shorten your prayers on the first travel thereafter. If you stay for ten days in your homeland or elsewhere and then embark on a non-work-related trip, such as for visitation, it is obligatory to combine shortening and completing prayers during the work travel that follows the visitation trip.
Source: A Treatise on Prayer and Fasting, Prayer, Traveler's Prayer, not to make travel a profession, M 494 + 495 + Special Inquiry.
May you be successful in all good.