Combining Prayers Before Traveling While Still at Home
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If I intend to travel a distance of more than eighty kilometers, is it permissible for me to combine the prayers by bringing them forward while I am still at home before I set out?
Answer:
No. The dispensation for travel does not begin until you leave the inhabited area of the town. You have traveled, meaning you have become manifest in your travel, which is emerging. So when you emerge from the town, the travel begins. As long as you are in your house or inside the town, you are not a traveler. You do not break your fast, and you do not shorten the prayer. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If I intend to travel a distance of more than eighty kilometers, is it permissible for me to combine the prayers by bringing them forward while I am still at home before I set out?
Answer:
No. The dispensation for travel does not begin until you leave the inhabited area of the town. You have traveled, meaning you have become manifest in your travel, which is emerging. So when you emerge from the town, the travel begins. As long as you are in your house or inside the town, you are not a traveler. You do not break your fast, and you do not shorten the prayer. 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 (52:53)
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