The Legal Criterion for Shortening and Combining Prayers While Traveling
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Question:
This listener, Ahmad Muhsin Abd al-Hamid, asks: What is the general legal criterion for shortening and combining prayers while traveling?
Answer:
As you heard, if the travel distance reaches the distance for shortening, which is eighty kilometers or more, then you shorten the prayer. You remain in the state of travel until you return. If you intend to stay for a long period during the trip, exceeding four days, then the state of travel is broken and you complete the prayer. If the stay is four days or less, or if you have not specified it and do not know when you will return, then you shorten the prayer. However, as we mentioned in the answer before this, if there is a mosque where the congregational prayer is held, then you pray with them. You complete the prayer with them if they are residents who complete the prayer. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
This listener, Ahmad Muhsin Abd al-Hamid, asks: What is the general legal criterion for shortening and combining prayers while traveling?
Answer:
As you heard, if the travel distance reaches the distance for shortening, which is eighty kilometers or more, then you shorten the prayer. You remain in the state of travel until you return. If you intend to stay for a long period during the trip, exceeding four days, then the state of travel is broken and you complete the prayer. If the stay is four days or less, or if you have not specified it and do not know when you will return, then you shorten the prayer. However, as we mentioned in the answer before this, if there is a mosque where the congregational prayer is held, then you pray with them. You complete the prayer with them if they are residents who complete the prayer. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/193 — archive.org (6:37)
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