The ruling on combining prayers while traveling

Question:
Umm Hamid asks: When is combining prayers permissible while traveling? And are men and women equal in this regard?

Answer:
Combining prayers while traveling is permissible for both men and women, provided that the distance of the journey is eighty kilometers or more. One may combine prayers in the manner of advancing or delaying, whichever is more convenient. One may also combine prayers if he stops for a rest or to attend to a need, provided the stay does not exceed four days. He should shorten the prayers but not combine them, because combining is for one who is in the midst of travel, and this person is not in the midst of travel; rather, he has stopped. He should pray each prayer in its proper time, shortened, without combining, unless there is a mosque nearby where the prayer is established in congregation and the call to prayer is heard. In that case, it is obligatory for him to attend and pray with the Muslims, completing the prayer with them by following the imam. Yes.