Is it permissible for a traveler to combine the Friday prayer and the 'Asr prayer?
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. He says: On Wednesday, we entered the state of ihram from the 'Aynat 'Ali, and we went to Makkah for the 'Umrah. We stayed in Makkah for two days. After the Zuhr prayer on Friday in Makkah, we combined and shortened the 'Asr prayer, on the basis that we were travelers who would depart for Madinah immediately after the prayer. Is this prayer valid? Knowing that the father was one of the students of knowledge and said it is not permissible, and that you are not required to pray the 'Asr prayer in its time. Are we required to do what he said, or is what we did correct? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Yes, what the student of knowledge gave you as a ruling is the correct one, and it is obligatory. It is not permissible to combine the 'Asr prayer with the Friday prayer, because it is not of the same kind as it. The scholars have explicitly stated this and explained that it is not permissible to pray the 'Asr prayer after the Friday prayer by combining them, neither for a traveler nor for anyone else, because it is not of the same kind as it. So what you did was a mistake, and you must make up the 'Asr prayer by praying it as four rak'ahs if you are no longer traveling, meaning the travel you were in has ended. If you have stayed and arrived at your country, you make up the prayer in which the error occurred during the travel. You make it up in the state of residence, complete, not shortened. It is obligatory for you to make up the 'Asr prayer completely as four rak'ahs, as long as your travel has ended. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. He says: On Wednesday, we entered the state of ihram from the 'Aynat 'Ali, and we went to Makkah for the 'Umrah. We stayed in Makkah for two days. After the Zuhr prayer on Friday in Makkah, we combined and shortened the 'Asr prayer, on the basis that we were travelers who would depart for Madinah immediately after the prayer. Is this prayer valid? Knowing that the father was one of the students of knowledge and said it is not permissible, and that you are not required to pray the 'Asr prayer in its time. Are we required to do what he said, or is what we did correct? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Yes, what the student of knowledge gave you as a ruling is the correct one, and it is obligatory. It is not permissible to combine the 'Asr prayer with the Friday prayer, because it is not of the same kind as it. The scholars have explicitly stated this and explained that it is not permissible to pray the 'Asr prayer after the Friday prayer by combining them, neither for a traveler nor for anyone else, because it is not of the same kind as it. So what you did was a mistake, and you must make up the 'Asr prayer by praying it as four rak'ahs if you are no longer traveling, meaning the travel you were in has ended. If you have stayed and arrived at your country, you make up the prayer in which the error occurred during the travel. You make it up in the state of residence, complete, not shortened. It is obligatory for you to make up the 'Asr prayer completely as four rak'ahs, as long as your travel has ended. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز للمسافر أن يجمع صلاة الجمعة والعصر؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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