Tayammum when water is sixty kilometers away and the Maghrib prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a group of men went out to the desert for a leisure trip. When they wanted to return, the time for the Maghrib prayer entered, and they had only a little water with them. So they performed tayammum, even though there was a village with water sixty kilometers away from them. My question is: Is it permissible for them to perform tayammum? Or should they delay the Maghrib prayer until they reach that village and combine it with the Isha prayer?
Answer:
They perform tayammum. Sixty kilometers is far. They perform tayammum and pray Maghrib. If they delay it until Isha and they are travelers, that is permissible. But it is permissible for them to pray Maghrib; they perform tayammum and pray Maghrib because they are lacking water and the water is far away. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, a group of men went out to the desert for a leisure trip. When they wanted to return, the time for the Maghrib prayer entered, and they had only a little water with them. So they performed tayammum, even though there was a village with water sixty kilometers away from them. My question is: Is it permissible for them to perform tayammum? Or should they delay the Maghrib prayer until they reach that village and combine it with the Isha prayer?
Answer:
They perform tayammum. Sixty kilometers is far. They perform tayammum and pray Maghrib. If they delay it until Isha and they are travelers, that is permissible. But it is permissible for them to pray Maghrib; they perform tayammum and pray Maghrib because they are lacking water and the water is far away. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 129 من 175 /شرح بلوغ المرام/النكاح/اللعان/صالح الفوزان/الحديث/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:06:10)
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