Shortening the prayer and missing the congregation for university students living in the dormitory

Question:
He says: May Allah reward you. We are students from outside Riyadh, and we live in the university dormitory. Some of us shorten the prayer in the dormitory, pray in their rooms, and miss the congregation, on the grounds that some scholars have permitted this for students of knowledge.

Answer:
This is a student of knowledge who does this. A student of knowledge seeks the truth, and the truth is that one who resides for a long period for study or otherwise is not a traveler; his state of travel has ended. So he has to pray the prayer in full with the congregation in the mosque, and leave off the dispensation in the dispensations that some scholars mentioned without evidence. Every person’s words are taken and rejected except the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
What clears your conscience is not that so-and-so said this, and so-and-so said that. What clears your conscience is what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said. That is what clears your conscience. Yes.