Shortening the Prayer and Combining Prayers for One Who Tends His Camels in the Desert

Question:
This questioner, Abu Mu'adh from Riyadh, says: A man has camels that are more than two hundred kilometers from his home. He goes to them from time to time to check on them and bring them the feed and other things they need, and he stays there for two or three days, then returns to his family. Does this stay there allow for shortening and combining prayers in this situation?

Answer:
If these camels are in the open desert and are, as he said, two hundred kilometers from his town—not from his house, but from his town, meaning outside the limits of the town where he is—and he does not stay with them for a long period, but only for about three or four days, or stays for an unspecified period, he shortens the prayer because he is a traveler. He shortens the prayer on the road, and he shortens it during his brief stay with the camels, because he is still a traveler. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.