Shortening and Combining Prayers for a Traveler Whose Stay Is Less Than Four Days
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if I am traveling and my stay is less than four days, is it better to combine and shorten the prayers, or just shorten them?
The Shaykh:
And what is it?
The questioner:
If I am traveling and my stay is less than four days, is it better to combine and shorten the prayers, or just shorten them and pray each prayer in its time?
The Shaykh:
There is a distinction here. If you are near a mosque and you hear the call to prayer, you pray with the Muslims? You follow the imam and you get the reward. In fact, it is obligatory for you to respond to the call. But if you are not near a mosque, it is permissible for you to just shorten the prayers. As for combining, that is only done while traveling. If you are sitting or staying, you pray each prayer in its time, shortened, without combining, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did in Mina; he shortened without combining. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if I am traveling and my stay is less than four days, is it better to combine and shorten the prayers, or just shorten them?
The Shaykh:
And what is it?
The questioner:
If I am traveling and my stay is less than four days, is it better to combine and shorten the prayers, or just shorten them and pray each prayer in its time?
The Shaykh:
There is a distinction here. If you are near a mosque and you hear the call to prayer, you pray with the Muslims? You follow the imam and you get the reward. In fact, it is obligatory for you to respond to the call. But if you are not near a mosque, it is permissible for you to just shorten the prayers. As for combining, that is only done while traveling. If you are sitting or staying, you pray each prayer in its time, shortened, without combining, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did in Mina; he shortened without combining. Yes.
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