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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The distance for shortening the prayer in terms of farsakhs, miles, and kilometers

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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Are eighty kilometers equal to three farsakhs or three miles?

The Shaykh:
No, it is more than that. However, they relied on the hadith:
It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to travel forلا يحل لامرأة تؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر أن تسافر مسيرة
Sahih al-Bukhari 1088
three days. In one narration, it says to travel a distance of two days. In another narration, it says to travel a distance of one day and one night. They adopted this, so some of them defined the travel distance as three days, and they are the Hanafis. Some defined it as a two-day journey, like the Hanbalis, taking the narration that specifies two days, that one travels a distance of two days. And some said one day and one night, taking the last narration that one travels a distance of one day and one night. There is also a narration that it is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to travel except with a mahram, and it did not specify one day and one night or three days. So all of it is taken from this hadith. Yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

The Shaykh:
In that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) named this duration travel. Yes.
Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 15-04-1435هـ — af.org.sa (1:00:03)

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