The Book of Characteristics · Hadith 739 (#Ḥadīth #1)

5-78 حدثنا محمد بن موسى بن المتوكل رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسين السعد آبادي قال: حدثنا أحمد بن ابي عبد الله البرقي، عن ابيه محمد بن خالد عن محمد بن ابي عمير يرفعه إلى ابي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: خمسة يتمون في سفر كانوا أو في حضر: المكاري والكري والاشتقان وهو البريد والراعي، والملاح لانه عملهم

5-78 Muhammad ibn Musa ibn al-Mutevakil - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ali ibn al-Hussein al-Sa’ed Abady quoted Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah al-Barqy, on the authority of his father Muhammad ibn Khalid, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr who linked it up through a chain of narrators to Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), “The following five groups of people should say the complete prayers whether they are on a journey or at home: quadruped keepers who rents them; those who drive the rented quadrupeds; the (long-distance) couriers; the desert shepherds and a ship’s crew since these are their job.”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).