Is it better for the traveler to pray the sunnah or to limit himself to the obligatory prayer?

The questioner : This, O Shaykh, regarding the sunnah prayer for the traveler—meaning in a town, for example—some imams argue for it based on the hadith of Umm Hani' regarding the Conquest of Makkah, where the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed eight rak'ahs of the Dhuha prayer. This indicates permissibility. So, is it better that you pray the sunnah? Or is it better that you do not pray the sunnah?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible to derive a ruling from a single hadith when there are other hadiths that help understand the ruling correctly. If the hadith of Umm Hani' indicates the permissibility of the Dhuha prayer for the traveler, we take this benefit and store it in our memory. But what do we do with the hadith of Anas ibn Malik, for example, which is in the two Sahihs, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he left Madinah for the Farewell Pilgrimage, did not stop praying two rak'ahs, two rak'ahs, until he returned to it? This indicates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not pray the regular sunnah prayers while traveling. There are also other hadiths that confirm this, including what is in Sahih al-Bukhari from the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), that he used to disapprove of praying the regular sunnah prayers while traveling, and he would say: "I wish I had two rak'ahs from my prayer that were accepted."
The point is that the hadith of Anas and similar ones give us the understanding that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not pray the regular sunnah prayers while traveling, with the exception of the sunnah of Fajr and the sunnah of Witr. Just as this exception does not mean generalizing the ruling of Witr and the sunnah of Fajr to the other sunnahs, so too does the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer of Dhuha during the Conquest of Makkah not mean generalizing this ruling to the other sunnahs. This is because an explicit text is always prioritized over what is derived from another text. The hadith of Umm Hani' can be used to derive the permissibility of maintaining the sunnahs for the traveler, but the hadith of Anas and others are explicit that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not pray anything but the obligatory prayer. Added to this, for example, are other texts stating that he would combine the two prayers and not pray the sunnah between them.