Combining the two prayers while traveling is permissible if the journey is urgent
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Question:
The first message in this episode is from a listener in Khartoum, Sudan. The listener, Al-Tahir Ibrahim Muhammad, says: I traveled from my village in central Sudan to the city of Khartoum, and the distance was more than one hundred kilometers. On the way, the time for the midday prayer arrived. After performing the ablution, we lined up in two rows for the prayer. The man we chose to lead the prayer said that he would pray the midday and afternoon prayers with us, combining and shortening them. Here, the worshippers divided, claiming that combining and shortening the prayer is only done in the mosque. We then asked that each person pray individually. Please guide us. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, Allah has prescribed for the traveler to shorten the four-rak'ah prayer to two rak'ahs. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:101] The meaning of “traveling in the land” is traveling. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he traveled, would shorten the prayer from the time he left the city until he returned to it. This is the Sunnah.
As for the one who told you not to shorten the prayer or combine it except in the mosque, this is a mistake, a great mistake, and ignorance on his part. It is not permissible for these ignorant people to speak about matters of religion, about matters of Islamic jurisprudence, without knowledge, thereby misleading people and causing them to fall into error without knowledge. Exalted is He[Al-Isra 17:36] Combining the two prayers while traveling is permissible if the journey is urgent. And your journey was urgent, because you were praying on the road as you mentioned. So shortening and combining are permissible for you, praise be to Allah. This is part of Allah’s (Mighty and Majestic) facilitation for the Muslims, and…
The first message in this episode is from a listener in Khartoum, Sudan. The listener, Al-Tahir Ibrahim Muhammad, says: I traveled from my village in central Sudan to the city of Khartoum, and the distance was more than one hundred kilometers. On the way, the time for the midday prayer arrived. After performing the ablution, we lined up in two rows for the prayer. The man we chose to lead the prayer said that he would pray the midday and afternoon prayers with us, combining and shortening them. Here, the worshippers divided, claiming that combining and shortening the prayer is only done in the mosque. We then asked that each person pray individually. Please guide us. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, Allah has prescribed for the traveler to shorten the four-rak'ah prayer to two rak'ahs. Allah the Exalted said:
And when you travel throughout the land, there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer
وَإِذَا ضَرَبْتُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَن تَقْصُرُوا مِنَ الصَّلَاةِAs for the one who told you not to shorten the prayer or combine it except in the mosque, this is a mistake, a great mistake, and ignorance on his part. It is not permissible for these ignorant people to speak about matters of religion, about matters of Islamic jurisprudence, without knowledge, thereby misleading people and causing them to fall into error without knowledge. Exalted is He
And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed, the hearing, the sight and the heart - about all those [one] will be questioned.
وَلَا تَقْفُ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَالْبَصَرَ وَالْفُؤَادَ كُلُّ أُولَٰئِكَ كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْئُولًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4962- الجمع بين الصلاتين في السفر مباح إذا جد به السير - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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