Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

A disabled man heard that the mosques combined the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers, so he combined them while in his home. What is the ruling on his prayer?

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: A disabled person who is unable to attend the congregation heard that the mosques combined the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers yesterday, so he combined them while in his home. What is the ruling on his prayer? And what is the ruling on a woman combining the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers in her home if the people combine them in the mosques?

Answer:
Yes, we have answered this in a previous lesson. We said that the one who needs to combine combines, and the one who does not need to combine prays each prayer in its time. So the one who prays in his home does not need to combine unless he is sick. If he is sick and needs to combine, he combines. But if he is healthy, he does not combine.
Disabled means he is sound in his body but is disabled such that he cannot go to the mosque. This person does not combine; he prays each prayer in its time. And the woman prays each prayer in its time, because combining was prescribed only to remove the hardship for those going to the mosque, and these people do not have that hardship. The default is that the prayer is performed in its time, as Allah the Exalted said:
Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا
[An-Nisa 4:103]
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Pray the prayer at its time." Yes. May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Some scholars say there is no harm if they combine in the mosque, and it is permissible for those in their homes to combine. But this statement is questionable. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [783 -954] رجل معاق سمع المساجد جمعت المغرب والعشاء، فجمع وهو في بيته، فما حكم صلاته..؟ — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa