Ruling on combining and shortening prayers for a traveler who travels one hundred kilometers daily
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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh Salih, may Allah preserve you. This is a question from the listener Abu Saif from Syria. He says: My workplace is one hundred kilometers from where I live. Is it permissible for me to combine prayers and shorten them, meaning offering the 'Asr prayer with the Zuhr prayer, or delaying the Zuhr prayer to offer it with the 'Asr prayer? Please note that I go to my workplace every day and return home on the same day. Please advise us, may Allah reward you with good?
The Shaykh:
How far is the workplace from the house?
The questioner:
One hundred kilometers.
The Shaykh:
One hundred kilometers is the distance for shortening. He may shorten and combine. Yes.
The questioner:
And if this repeats daily, he travels one hundred kilometers for his work and returns on the same day.
The Shaykh:
Yes, as long as he is on the road, he is a traveler. But if he arrives at his house, the travel has ended.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Your Eminence the Shaykh Salih, may Allah preserve you. This is a question from the listener Abu Saif from Syria. He says: My workplace is one hundred kilometers from where I live. Is it permissible for me to combine prayers and shorten them, meaning offering the 'Asr prayer with the Zuhr prayer, or delaying the Zuhr prayer to offer it with the 'Asr prayer? Please note that I go to my workplace every day and return home on the same day. Please advise us, may Allah reward you with good?
The Shaykh:
How far is the workplace from the house?
The questioner:
One hundred kilometers.
The Shaykh:
One hundred kilometers is the distance for shortening. He may shorten and combine. Yes.
The questioner:
And if this repeats daily, he travels one hundred kilometers for his work and returns on the same day.
The Shaykh:
Yes, as long as he is on the road, he is a traveler. But if he arrives at his house, the travel has ended.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7481 — youtube.com (15:41)
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