If one goes on a land trip without intending to travel, and then covers more than eighty kilometers, is shortening the prayer permissible for him?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the intention to travel a condition for shortening the prayer? If a group goes on a land trip for the distance that allows shortening, and they did not intend to travel, may they shorten the prayer?
Answer:
If they intend to cover that distance, it is travel, even if they did not intend to travel. So if they intend to cover a distance of eighty kilometers, that is travel. But if they go out not knowing where they will stop, walking, perhaps stopping near or far, and they did not intend a specific distance, then this is not considered travel. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the intention to travel a condition for shortening the prayer? If a group goes on a land trip for the distance that allows shortening, and they did not intend to travel, may they shorten the prayer?
Answer:
If they intend to cover that distance, it is travel, even if they did not intend to travel. So if they intend to cover a distance of eighty kilometers, that is travel. But if they go out not knowing where they will stop, walking, perhaps stopping near or far, and they did not intend a specific distance, then this is not considered travel. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [428 -2802] من خرج في رحلة برية ولم ينو السفر، ثم قطع أكثر من ثمانين كيلو، هل يجوز له القصر؟ — youtube.com
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