Combining and Shortening Prayers for University Students Who Travel Daily
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This person says: We are university students in Qassim who travel daily to this town for our studies. We combine and shorten the Dhuhr and Asr prayers on the way, before we reach al-Zulfi, knowing that we sometimes combine them at the time of Dhuhr. Is combining and shortening permissible for us, or should we only shorten, or should we neither shorten nor combine?
Answer:
You are travelers as long as you are on the road or at your place of work and will return after work is finished. You are travelers, and you may combine and shorten your prayers until you enter your town. This is attached to the journey, and the journey does not end until one enters the town. So whoever combines and shortens on the way has done well, for he acted upon the dispensation of shortening and did what is permissible, which is combining. Yes.
May Allah reward you. This person says: We are university students in Qassim who travel daily to this town for our studies. We combine and shorten the Dhuhr and Asr prayers on the way, before we reach al-Zulfi, knowing that we sometimes combine them at the time of Dhuhr. Is combining and shortening permissible for us, or should we only shorten, or should we neither shorten nor combine?
Answer:
You are travelers as long as you are on the road or at your place of work and will return after work is finished. You are travelers, and you may combine and shorten your prayers until you enter your town. This is attached to the journey, and the journey does not end until one enters the town. So whoever combines and shortens on the way has done well, for he acted upon the dispensation of shortening and did what is permissible, which is combining. Yes.
Source
لقاء مفتوح [الزلفي] — alfawzan.live (50:59)
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