Combining and shortening prayers at a rest stop eighty kilometers from Riyadh
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The questioner:
May Allah raise your status. We have a rest stop that is eighty kilometers, or eighty-two kilometers, from Riyadh. Is it permissible to combine and shorten the prayers there, or must we complete the prayers? We have a mosque there, the Barak Fuhud prayer hall.
The presenter:
Okay, the Shaykh will answer.
The Shaykh:
Yes, if it is eighty kilometers or more, and you do not intend to stay there for a long period of more than four days, then you may combine the prayers, you may shorten them, you may shorten them. As for combining, as long as you are staying, you pray each prayer in its time, shortened, without combining. And if there is a congregation and a mosque around you, pray with them; do not pray alone. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Ibn Majah 793Sahih (Darussalam). Yes.
May Allah raise your status. We have a rest stop that is eighty kilometers, or eighty-two kilometers, from Riyadh. Is it permissible to combine and shorten the prayers there, or must we complete the prayers? We have a mosque there, the Barak Fuhud prayer hall.
The presenter:
Okay, the Shaykh will answer.
The Shaykh:
Yes, if it is eighty kilometers or more, and you do not intend to stay there for a long period of more than four days, then you may combine the prayers, you may shorten them, you may shorten them. As for combining, as long as you are staying, you pray each prayer in its time, shortened, without combining. And if there is a congregation and a mosque around you, pray with them; do not pray alone. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever hears the call and does not come, his prayer is not valid, except for those who have an excuse.
من سمع النداء فلم يأته فلا صلاة له إلا من عذر
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