A woman wanted to travel, so she combined and shortened the prayer before leaving the town. What is the ruling on that?

Question:
She says: It is well known that the prayer in travel is shortened and combined, whether the combination is by delaying or advancing. However, I was unaware that the traveler’s prayer is not combined until after leaving the town by approximately eighty kilometers. I was praying at home before leaving. Do I owe anything?

Answer:
It is not permissible to use the dispensations of travel, such as combining and shortening the prayer, or breaking the fast in Ramadan, except after emerging from the town and leaving the town. If a person leaves his village, the dispensations of travel begin for him, and what becomes obligatory upon him, he prays as a resident, completing it, and does not combine it with what follows; because it became obligatory upon him in full while he was in the town, so he performs it in full, whether he prayed it inside the town or after he had left it. Yes.