The distance for shortening the prayer while traveling
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The questioner:
Peace be upon you. You will not find it again. Since it was cut off in the hospital at the first hour.
The Shaykh:
It responds to the translation of this question; this is what prevents it.
Another questioner:
He says: Shaykh, the distance of the journey is less than eighty kilometers, but it takes more than an hour and a half because the road is unpaved.
The Shaykh:
There is a difference of opinion regarding the distance for shortening the prayer. Some hold that it is three days for a camel, some hold that it is one day and night for a camel, and some hold that it is two days. This is the well-known view among the Hanbalis: yes, two days for a camel. We choose the two days for a camel, which is eighty kilometers: two stages, each stage being forty kilometers. This is what a camel can cover in a day, forty kilometers, and then it rests. This is the middle position.
So less than eighty kilometers is not a place of agreement in the disagreement. And the criterion is not time; the criterion for travel is distance. The standard is distance. Otherwise, it might take ten kilometers and take a day if you walk step by step or are burdened. The criterion is not the speed of travel or its lightness; the criterion is distance, and that is the standard.
This is the view of the majority. There are those who estimate it by time, such as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, but this does not apply in our present time. If we estimated it by time, there would be no travel in this era, because time has been shortened by means of rapid transport. So there would be no travel in this time.
Peace be upon you. You will not find it again. Since it was cut off in the hospital at the first hour.
The Shaykh:
It responds to the translation of this question; this is what prevents it.
Another questioner:
He says: Shaykh, the distance of the journey is less than eighty kilometers, but it takes more than an hour and a half because the road is unpaved.
The Shaykh:
There is a difference of opinion regarding the distance for shortening the prayer. Some hold that it is three days for a camel, some hold that it is one day and night for a camel, and some hold that it is two days. This is the well-known view among the Hanbalis: yes, two days for a camel. We choose the two days for a camel, which is eighty kilometers: two stages, each stage being forty kilometers. This is what a camel can cover in a day, forty kilometers, and then it rests. This is the middle position.
So less than eighty kilometers is not a place of agreement in the disagreement. And the criterion is not time; the criterion for travel is distance. The standard is distance. Otherwise, it might take ten kilometers and take a day if you walk step by step or are burdened. The criterion is not the speed of travel or its lightness; the criterion is distance, and that is the standard.
This is the view of the majority. There are those who estimate it by time, such as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, but this does not apply in our present time. If we estimated it by time, there would be no travel in this era, because time has been shortened by means of rapid transport. So there would be no travel in this time.
Source
بلوغ المرام [13] — alfawzan.live (47:46)
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