If a traveler appoints someone as his deputy, what does he do?

Question : If someone appoints him as a deputy.

Answer : And if he is a traveler, let him decline. Because he is between two things: either he prays the four-rak'ah prayer as two rak'ahs for as long as he remains in this town, and there is no doubt that this does not please the congregation, or he completes the prayer, and this is contrary to the Sunnah. Therefore, he has no option but to decline, unless the appointment is for a single prayer. In that case, he prays two rak'ahs with them, and when he concludes the prayer, he explains to them that this is the Sunnah. Yes.