The Ruling on Combining and Shortening Prayers While Traveling
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The questioner:
The questioner says: We are a group of colleagues who went out of Riyadh by about seventy kilometers or less. When the time for the Maghrib prayer came, we prayed Maghrib and combined and shortened the 'Isha' prayer with it. What is the ruling on this action, since some of the brothers differed on it?
The Shaykh:
First, one must intend the distance, which is a two-day journey for a mount, estimated at approximately eighty kilometers. One must intend it if he goes out, whether for a picnic or for travel. As for if he goes out for a picnic or for hunting and does not know where he will end up, near or far, then he does not shorten, because he did not intend a distance that qualifies for shortening.
So if you intended a distance of eighty kilometers or more, then you have the right to shorten and combine. But if the distance is less than that, and you say it is seventy kilometers or less, then you do not have the right to shorten or combine, because you are in the ruling of one who is present in the town. Yes.
The questioner:
From where is the distance calculated, Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
From outside the town. If he goes out from the inhabited part of the town, the distance begins. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
The questioner says: We are a group of colleagues who went out of Riyadh by about seventy kilometers or less. When the time for the Maghrib prayer came, we prayed Maghrib and combined and shortened the 'Isha' prayer with it. What is the ruling on this action, since some of the brothers differed on it?
The Shaykh:
First, one must intend the distance, which is a two-day journey for a mount, estimated at approximately eighty kilometers. One must intend it if he goes out, whether for a picnic or for travel. As for if he goes out for a picnic or for hunting and does not know where he will end up, near or far, then he does not shorten, because he did not intend a distance that qualifies for shortening.
So if you intended a distance of eighty kilometers or more, then you have the right to shorten and combine. But if the distance is less than that, and you say it is seventy kilometers or less, then you do not have the right to shorten or combine, because you are in the ruling of one who is present in the town. Yes.
The questioner:
From where is the distance calculated, Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
From outside the town. If he goes out from the inhabited part of the town, the distance begins. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
Source
نور على الدرب 02-06-1438هـ — af.org.sa (10:26)
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