The ruling on a traveler leading a resident in prayer
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The questioner:
If a person, Shaykh Salih, is traveling and intends to shorten and combine the prayers, is it permissible for him to lead the prayer?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
He says: If a person is traveling and intends to shorten and combine the prayers, is it permissible for him to lead the prayer with the group that is with him?
The Shaykh:
If they are travelers like him, they shorten and combine with him. But if they are residents, they pray with him, and when he completes two rak'ahs and says the taslim, they stand up and complete the prayer for themselves, just as the people of Makkah did behind the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) during the Farewell Pilgrimage. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Yes.
If a person, Shaykh Salih, is traveling and intends to shorten and combine the prayers, is it permissible for him to lead the prayer?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
He says: If a person is traveling and intends to shorten and combine the prayers, is it permissible for him to lead the prayer with the group that is with him?
The Shaykh:
If they are travelers like him, they shorten and combine with him. But if they are residents, they pray with him, and when he completes two rak'ahs and says the taslim, they stand up and complete the prayer for themselves, just as the people of Makkah did behind the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) during the Farewell Pilgrimage. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
O people of Makkah, complete your prayer for yourselves, for we are a traveling people.
يا أهل مكة أتموا لأنفسكم فإنا قوم سفر.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3888] حكم إمامة المسافر بالمقيم - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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