The Starting Point for Calculating the Distance for Shortening the Prayer
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The questioner:
And I said to those scholars: How is the beginning of the separation and breaking the fast determined when leaving the town? And if the length of the journey reaches approximately eight kilometers, he has not exceeded five kilometers from the town. Please advise us, O Mu'adhdhin.
The Shaykh:
The eighty kilometers do not begin until from outside the town, from outside the town. You do not count it except from outside the town. The distance does not begin until from outside the town. So, if he leaves the town and there remain eighty kilometers or more, he becomes a traveler. If there remain only sixty kilometers, he is not considered a traveler. Even if he traveled, for example, in a town like Riyadh, like Riyadh, whose distance is forty kilometers inside the town, all of which he walks or travels, suppose he lives in Khanshina and goes to buy al-Qasir, how much does he have to travel in Riyadh? What is the distance of travel in Riyadh? About forty or sixty kilometers. We do not consider any of this, because it is inside the town. Yes.
Another questioner:
Even if he intended to reside in a town for study. Then he traveled to his family today.
The Shaykh:
When he comes to his family, he is required to complete the prayer and abstain from food and drink in Ramadan, because he has come to his family, so he is a resident.
And I said to those scholars: How is the beginning of the separation and breaking the fast determined when leaving the town? And if the length of the journey reaches approximately eight kilometers, he has not exceeded five kilometers from the town. Please advise us, O Mu'adhdhin.
The Shaykh:
The eighty kilometers do not begin until from outside the town, from outside the town. You do not count it except from outside the town. The distance does not begin until from outside the town. So, if he leaves the town and there remain eighty kilometers or more, he becomes a traveler. If there remain only sixty kilometers, he is not considered a traveler. Even if he traveled, for example, in a town like Riyadh, like Riyadh, whose distance is forty kilometers inside the town, all of which he walks or travels, suppose he lives in Khanshina and goes to buy al-Qasir, how much does he have to travel in Riyadh? What is the distance of travel in Riyadh? About forty or sixty kilometers. We do not consider any of this, because it is inside the town. Yes.
Another questioner:
Even if he intended to reside in a town for study. Then he traveled to his family today.
The Shaykh:
When he comes to his family, he is required to complete the prayer and abstain from food and drink in Ramadan, because he has come to his family, so he is a resident.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تتمة باب المسح على الخفين — islamhouse.com (1:17:25)
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