When does a person break his fast while traveling?

The questioner : ... give us a brief overview: When does the traveler break his fast?

The Shaykh : This question, "When does a person break his fast while traveling?" has branches. When does a person break his fast while traveling? It can be said in the answer: When he leaves his town, from the buildings of his town, and in my opinion thatThe questioner : does not mean only this, and I feel as though he means: What is the travel in which the traveler breaks his fast?
The Shaykh : The truth is that this issue—also—is one in which there has been much and very long disagreement, and there is no explicit text from the Book of Allah or from the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that can be considered a decisive text that ends the disagreement; rather, there is only the stronger opinion. And we are with those who held that any travel is travel upon which the rulings of travel and the rulings of the traveler apply. This is taken from, for example, His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He): . Just as Allah (Mighty and Majestic) made the illness general in this verse, so He made the travel general. Therefore, whatever is travel, whether it is long or short, it is travel upon which its rulings apply, and after that, no regard is given to the distance; it is not said, for example: a day and a night, or three days with their nights, or the like.
The Shaykh : So, if we know that this is the stronger position, and it is the one chosen by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah in some of his books, and indeed in his specific treatise on the rulings of travel, which was printed in five volumes, part of which was printed in Egypt by Sayyid Muhammad Rashid Rida (may Allah have mercy on him) in the Dar al-Manar edition, if we know that travel in general is that upon which the rulings of the traveler apply; then at that time, merely the traveler leaving his town causes the rulings of the traveler to apply to him. So, if he stops in another town to which he was heading, there he is still a traveler, also, whether his days are long, his days are many, or his days are few, he is still under the ruling of the traveler, except if he intends to reside, resolves to reside there. But as long as he has not resolved to reside and he says to himself: today I will travel, and tomorrow I will travel, and so on, however long the period he stays in the town he traveled to is, he is still a traveler. It is established that the Companions, when they went out for jihad in the path of Allah toward Khurasan, from the lands of Iran today, there the snow fell heavily, so it cut off from them the road of return to their lands, so they remained for a year, months, and they were shortening the prayer! Six months! Because they were hoping that this snow would be removed, either by a divine, Allah’s way, or by an industrial way as they may do today in some countries.
The Shaykh : So, with this we know that travel does not have a limit called by the Shari'ah, but rather it is in general like illness, and that its rulings begin as soon as the traveler leaves his town. So, if he reaches the town to which he was heading, he is still a traveler except that he resolves to reside. But as long as he has not resolved to reside, he is a traveler.