Is it permissible for a traveler to pray the midday prayer behind an imam who is praying the afternoon prayer?
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Question:
Dr. Salih, there are many questions regarding matters of travel, shortening, and completing the prayer. So if a person arrives during the combining of the afternoon and midday prayers and joins an imam who has, for example, already finished the midday prayer, while he has not yet prayed the midday prayer, whether on the line or on the path.
Answer:
He may join him with the intention of the midday prayer, and the difference in intention here does not affect the ruling. It is permissible, according to the correct view, to pray with the intention of the midday prayer behind one who is praying the afternoon prayer; there is no harm in that.
Dr. Salih, there are many questions regarding matters of travel, shortening, and completing the prayer. So if a person arrives during the combining of the afternoon and midday prayers and joins an imam who has, for example, already finished the midday prayer, while he has not yet prayed the midday prayer, whether on the line or on the path.
Answer:
He may join him with the intention of the midday prayer, and the difference in intention here does not affect the ruling. It is permissible, according to the correct view, to pray with the intention of the midday prayer behind one who is praying the afternoon prayer; there is no harm in that.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز للمسافر أن يصلي الظهر خلف إمام يصلي العصر؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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