The Rule of Travel, the Distance for Shortening the Prayer, and the Continuity of Buildings

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, the opinions have differed and multiplied regarding the criterion for travel, the criterion for when the rulings of travel begin, the criterion for…

The Shaykh:
So that we may issue a ruling on it: eighty kilometers, the distance of a day and night for a mount, a day and night for a mount is eighty kilometers.

The questioner:
My brother.

The Shaykh:
Approximately how much? A distance of eighty kilometers, approximately.

The questioner:
Okay, Shaykh, how far must one be from it if it is said that one must go beyond the buildings and the connected farms? How far must one go beyond them?

The Shaykh:
And beyond the buildings of the town, the houses.

The questioner:
And the projects connected to them.

The Shaykh:
And they say it is approximately the distance between Makkah and Ta’if, and the like.

The questioner:
On this basis, Shaykh, some cities close to Riyadh, even if they are eighty-five or ninety kilometers, because the buildings and farms are connected in some places.

The Shaykh:
The prayer of the buildings came with the prayer of travel.

The questioner:
No, Shaykh, the connection of buildings to the city of Riyadh.

The Shaykh:
No, the farms are not called buildings, the farms are not called buildings.

The questioner:
Yes, may Allah reward you

Another questioner:
Now, the buildings have extended in Riyadh for about fifteen kilometers along the Khurayjah road.

The Shaykh:
Nine, nine.

Another questioner:
The Gulf road. Our master Shayban, Khuraybah, the buildings have extended.

The Shaykh:
That is, the expansion of people, this matter, and praise be to Allah, has occurred with its causes, much good, the expansion of people in the cities and villages,

Another questioner:
Like Makkah and Jeddah, Jeddah has extended toward Riyadh more than twenty kilometers.

The Shaykh:
I seek forgiveness from Allah. The lands have become closer to each other due to the expansion of people and the expansion of the environment.

Another questioner:
Riyadh now, its east and west, is more than seventy kilometers. May you live long, Riyadh is one hundred by eighty kilometers, from west to east one hundred, and from north to south eighty kilometers,

The Shaykh:
Not far, not far.

Another questioner:
When we come to shorten Riyadh regarding the clean one from the east, it is the one who comes from al-Hadath from here to the clean one

The Shaykh:
And Ibrahim, Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Glory to the One who counts them and enumerates them with a count, there is no power and no strength. What Allah willed, and what He said, and what He said.

The questioner:
May Allah guide you.