The ruling for a traveler who wants to intend the Friday prayer as the midday prayer in order to combine them?
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Question : But if someone were to say, "I want to use a stratagem; I will use a stratagem by intending the Friday prayer as the midday prayer, because I am a traveler and the midday prayer for me is how many units? Two units, which is the same as the Friday prayer, so I will intend it as the midday prayer."
Answer : So what do we say to him? We say: This intention is not valid according to the view of those who say that it is a condition that the intention of the imam and the follower agree, because they did not make an exception.
In this issue, except for the one who catches less than one unit of the Friday prayer, for he enters with the imam intending the midday prayer because the Friday prayer is difficult for him. As for this person, it is possible for him, so it is not valid for him to intend the midday prayer behind one who is praying the Friday prayer. This view clearly states that it is not valid to intend it as the midday prayer. As for the stronger view, which holds that a difference between the intention of the imam and the follower does not harm, we say: Do not intend it as the midday prayer, because if you intend it as the midday prayer, you deprive yourself of the reward of the Friday prayer, and the reward of the Friday prayer.
Is much greater than the reward of the midday prayer. So how do you deprive yourself of the reward of the Friday prayer just to combine, when the matter is easy? Leave the afternoon prayer until its time enters, then pray it. So, this stratagem is not valid according to the opinion of those who hold? The condition that the intention of the imam and the follower must agree.
And it is valid according to the opinion of those who hold that the difference does not harm. But we say that you have missed a great good, which is the reward of the Friday prayer, from which Allah led the Jews and Christians astray and guided this community to it. How do you waste yourself? Just to say, "This is easier for you." Now, if we combine in the first time...
Answer : So what do we say to him? We say: This intention is not valid according to the view of those who say that it is a condition that the intention of the imam and the follower agree, because they did not make an exception.
In this issue, except for the one who catches less than one unit of the Friday prayer, for he enters with the imam intending the midday prayer because the Friday prayer is difficult for him. As for this person, it is possible for him, so it is not valid for him to intend the midday prayer behind one who is praying the Friday prayer. This view clearly states that it is not valid to intend it as the midday prayer. As for the stronger view, which holds that a difference between the intention of the imam and the follower does not harm, we say: Do not intend it as the midday prayer, because if you intend it as the midday prayer, you deprive yourself of the reward of the Friday prayer, and the reward of the Friday prayer.
Is much greater than the reward of the midday prayer. So how do you deprive yourself of the reward of the Friday prayer just to combine, when the matter is easy? Leave the afternoon prayer until its time enters, then pray it. So, this stratagem is not valid according to the opinion of those who hold? The condition that the intention of the imam and the follower must agree.
And it is valid according to the opinion of those who hold that the difference does not harm. But we say that you have missed a great good, which is the reward of the Friday prayer, from which Allah led the Jews and Christians astray and guided this community to it. How do you waste yourself? Just to say, "This is easier for you." Now, if we combine in the first time...
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 4192الحكم لمسافر يريد أن ينوي الجمعة ظهر من أجل الجمع..؟📔 الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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