The ruling on the Friday prayer for a traveler who arrives before Friday

Question:
May Allah reward you with good. This is a questioner for the program who has coded his name as M, 'A, M. He says: We were a group of travelers on a Friday, traveling from one country to another, and we arrived before the Friday prayer. Some of us went and prayed the Friday prayer, while others prayed the midday and afternoon prayers combined and shortened after the Friday prayer was finished. What is the ruling in this case, and what is the correct course of action?

Answer:
There is a distinction here. If the intention, when he says "when we arrived," means they arrived at their home country, the country of their residence, then the travel has ended. In that case, the Friday prayer is obligatory upon them, and it is permissible for them to leave it because the travel has ended. However, if they arrived at a country other than their country of residence, and it is merely a country on their way that they passed through, then it is not obligatory upon them to attend the Friday prayer, because the Friday prayer is not obligatory upon a traveler. They have the choice between praying the Friday prayer with the Muslims, which suffices them for the midday prayer, and this is better, or praying it as a traveler's prayer, a midday prayer that they shorten.
And they combine the afternoon prayer with it if they are in a hurry to continue their journey and do not stay in this country on their route, but rather they have only stopped to rest and then continue their travel. In that case, they may combine and shorten.