Shortening and Combining Prayers for Those Working at Sea for Days
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: My work is at sea. We go out on the ship and stay in the sea for twenty days or more. Is it permissible for us to shorten the prayer and combine them?
Answer:
If you have the distance for shortening, and you travel the distance for shortening, you shorten and combine. But if you do not have a specific distance, you do not have a specific distance, and you do not know whether you will be far or near, or whether you will stay in your place? Then no, you are not travelers. Complete the prayer and pray every prayer in its time. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: My work is at sea. We go out on the ship and stay in the sea for twenty days or more. Is it permissible for us to shorten the prayer and combine them?
Answer:
If you have the distance for shortening, and you travel the distance for shortening, you shorten and combine. But if you do not have a specific distance, you do not have a specific distance, and you do not know whether you will be far or near, or whether you will stay in your place? Then no, you are not travelers. Complete the prayer and pray every prayer in its time. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء فيمن يلازم بقعة بعينها من المسجد — islamhouse.com (50:28)
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