What should one do if he is transporting an emergency case and fears that the time for prayer will end?
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Question:
Please, my brother Nawaf from al-Qaysumah. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. Peace be upon you. By Allah, your love for Allah, O Shaykh. May Allah reward you with good. My question, O Shaykh, is that I work for the Red Crescent, and sometimes the mu'adhdhin calls the adhan and I am transporting an emergency case, and the prayer is delayed by an hour, two hours, or so. And there are times when the transport is more than eighty kilometers. So how do I combine the prayers, or what should I do, O Shaykh? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
If this is a case of dire necessity, if it is a case of dire necessity and the emergency situation requires that you stay with the injured person, then you are excused in this, and the time is wide, so you pray it at the end of its time when the task is finished. And if you know that the task will continue, and you cannot leave the injured person, then you combine the two prayers before undertaking the task.
If the time for the first prayer has entered, if the time for the first prayer has entered, and you know that you will enter into performing the task and it will continue, then you combine the two prayers by advancing the second to the time of the first. And if the time for the first prayer has not entered, then you delay the first and combine it with the second by delaying the first to the time of the second, due to the excuse, because you are staying with this injured person. Yes.
Please, my brother Nawaf from al-Qaysumah. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. Peace be upon you. By Allah, your love for Allah, O Shaykh. May Allah reward you with good. My question, O Shaykh, is that I work for the Red Crescent, and sometimes the mu'adhdhin calls the adhan and I am transporting an emergency case, and the prayer is delayed by an hour, two hours, or so. And there are times when the transport is more than eighty kilometers. So how do I combine the prayers, or what should I do, O Shaykh? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
If this is a case of dire necessity, if it is a case of dire necessity and the emergency situation requires that you stay with the injured person, then you are excused in this, and the time is wide, so you pray it at the end of its time when the task is finished. And if you know that the task will continue, and you cannot leave the injured person, then you combine the two prayers before undertaking the task.
If the time for the first prayer has entered, if the time for the first prayer has entered, and you know that you will enter into performing the task and it will continue, then you combine the two prayers by advancing the second to the time of the first. And if the time for the first prayer has not entered, then you delay the first and combine it with the second by delaying the first to the time of the second, due to the excuse, because you are staying with this injured person. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1717 - من كان ينقل حالة إسعافية وخشي خروج وقت الصلاة، كيف يفعل؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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