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Ruling on combining two prayers due to extreme heat

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Question:
The questioner says: When it is winter and storms rage, rain falls, and the cold becomes severe, we are permitted to combine some of the prayers, such as Maghrib with 'Isha'. Since we are currently in an environment of extreme heat, and we leave our air-conditioned homes and enter an air-conditioned mosque, then we go out exposed to the hot air and what this exposure causes, he asks: Is it possible to combine two prayer times to avoid such weather, for example, combining Zuhr with 'Asr, to ease the burden on the worshippers, and to benefit from the dispensations?

Answer:
There is no dispensation in this, and this combining is not permissible. Ah. The issue of heat and cold: this has always been the case, and always, in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), they would place their head coverings on the ground and prostrate on them because of the intense heat, and they did not leave the prayer in the mosque.
The Sunnah, when the heat becomes intense, is to cool off with the Zuhr prayer; to cool off with it, meaning it is delayed from the beginning of its time until there is shade from the walls in which they walk to the mosque, and the heat also breaks. So the Sunnah is to cool off during the heat in the Zuhr prayer. As for combining 'Asr with it, or Maghrib and 'Isha, that is not permissible. The air conditioner is in your hand; if it has become cold, my brother, turn it off and wait a little until the coldness goes away, then go out. Yes.
Source مجالس رمضان 1431هـ - 03 — alfawzan.live (37:42)

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