Acting on the report of one whose reliability is unknown regarding the qiblah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If I am traveling and I ask a person about the qiblah, and I do not know whether he is trustworthy or not, do I act on his independent legal reasoning?
Answer:
If there is someone else, ask someone else whom you know. If there is no one else, and the matter is not certain until you reach certainty or reach the mark of the side, and if there is no one else, then act on the certainty, as long as it does not become clear to you that it is a difference in what is required. This is not because the default for a Muslim is justice and trustworthiness; that is the default for a Muslim.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If I am traveling and I ask a person about the qiblah, and I do not know whether he is trustworthy or not, do I act on his independent legal reasoning?
Answer:
If there is someone else, ask someone else whom you know. If there is no one else, and the matter is not certain until you reach certainty or reach the mark of the side, and if there is no one else, then act on the certainty, as long as it does not become clear to you that it is a difference in what is required. This is not because the default for a Muslim is justice and trustworthiness; that is the default for a Muslim.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 014 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الصلاة / شروط الصلاة / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:30)
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