Questions on Shortening the Prayer While Traveling and Praying Behind a Resident

The questioner : Now, the second question says: If you are a traveler, and this is all about travel, O Shaykh, may Allah be pleased with you, if you are a traveler and you intended to combine the prayers by bringing them forward or by delaying them, and you came upon a congregation of residents praying, and you joined them in prayer with the intention of praying according to the order, meaning, for example, you came from the 'Asr prayer intending to join them in the Zuhr prayer.

The Shaykh : Correct.

The questioner : Do I complete the four-rak'ah prayer with them, or do I pray the two rak'ahs with them and sit until they conclude the prayer?

The Shaykh : No, let them complete the four-rak'ah prayer.

The questioner : Complete the four-rak'ah prayer. Now, he says: What if you are a traveler and you intended to combine by delaying or by bringing forward?

The Shaykh : Yes, yes.

The questioner : Still in the same travel, questions about the travel itself. If you are a traveler and you intended to combine by delaying or by bringing forward, and you came upon a congregation of residents praying, and you joined them in prayer, but they had preceded you by one or two rak'ahs, do I pray four or bring it forward?

The Shaykh : Say the four.

The questioner : Complete it as four. Now, if you intended to travel from the place where you intended, and the time for prayer arrived before the travel, and you intended to combine by bringing forward, do I pray the second prayer as four or as two?

The Shaykh : Pray it as four, the second and the first.

The questioner : All of them as four.

The Shaykh : As long as you are in your home country.