Combining and shortening prayers for one whose workplace is one hundred and twenty kilometers from his home
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The questioner:
Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: My workplace is one hundred and twenty kilometers from my home. Is it permissible for me to combine and shorten the prayers?
The Shaykh:
One hundred and twenty kilometers from his home, or from the town?
The questioner:
He says from my home.
The Shaykh:
If the home is in the middle of the town, and the home in Riyadh, for example, is such that you travel a distance that qualifies for shortening without leaving the town, then the criterion is the home; the criterion is leaving the town. So if the distance between the town’s boundaries and his workplace is this distance, there is no harm in his shortening and combining the prayers both going and returning.
The presenter:
You are better than I am at knowing.
The Shaykh:
And Allah the Exalted knows best.
Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: My workplace is one hundred and twenty kilometers from my home. Is it permissible for me to combine and shorten the prayers?
The Shaykh:
One hundred and twenty kilometers from his home, or from the town?
The questioner:
He says from my home.
The Shaykh:
If the home is in the middle of the town, and the home in Riyadh, for example, is such that you travel a distance that qualifies for shortening without leaving the town, then the criterion is the home; the criterion is leaving the town. So if the distance between the town’s boundaries and his workplace is this distance, there is no harm in his shortening and combining the prayers both going and returning.
The presenter:
You are better than I am at knowing.
The Shaykh:
And Allah the Exalted knows best.
Source
شرح أخصر المختصرات في الفقه، كتاب القضاء — islamhouse.com (1:10:36)
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