What is the ruling on combining the Friday prayer with the 'Asr prayer while traveling or otherwise?

Question : May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Repeat, repeat. Honorable Shaykh. Correct. Is it permissible to combine the Friday prayer and the 'Asr prayer while traveling, just as one combines the Zuhr and 'Asr prayers on other days? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good.

Answer : It is not permissible, it is not permissible to combine 'Asr with the Friday prayer, because the Friday prayer is an independent prayer, an independent prayer that differs from the Zuhr prayer in many respects. And since it differs from it, it is not permissible to combine 'Asr with it.
Because 'Asr has a specific time, so if one combines it with the Friday prayer, he has prayed it before its time. And if one prays a prayer before its time, if he does so intentionally, he is sinful and the prayer is invalid; if he does not know, he is not sinful but the prayer is not valid, and he must repeat it. Accordingly, whoever combined 'Asr with the Friday prayer at any time in the past must repeat it now. If he was traveling, he repeats it as two rak'ahs; if he was resident, he repeats it as four. Because the Friday prayer is what? An independent prayer of two rak'ahs, in which the recitation suffices, and its condition is congregation, and it is not established except in one mosque in the town, and the differences between it and Zuhr are many. If someone were to ask: Is the hardship not present? As if a person were traveling, or if the Friday prayer were during heavy rains.
The hardship is present, we say that the criterion is not the hardship, the criterion is the hardship and the establishment of the permissibility of combining the two prayers with each other, this is necessary, because the obligation is to follow what the Shari'ah has brought. And it did not come from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he ever combined 'Asr with the Friday prayer. Even though the reason for combining 'Asr with the Friday prayer existed during the time of the Messenger and he did not combine them.
When did it occur? A man entered while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was delivering the sermon on Friday. He said: O Messenger of Allah, the wealth has been destroyed and the roads have been cut off, so call upon Allah to relieve us. He raised his hands and said: O Allah, relieve us, three times. So Allah sent a cloud that thundered and flashed and rained, and the rain fell from the roof of the mosque, upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) while he was delivering the sermon. He did not descend except while the rain was dripping from his beard. Was the rain heavy or light? Heavy. Is it heavy or light? Heavy, because it passed over the roof and fell upon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and dripped from his beard, and yet he did not combine 'Asr with it. The rain remained for a full week, so the first man entered on the second Friday and said: O Messenger of Allah, the buildings have collapsed and the wealth has been drowned, so call upon Allah to hold it back from us. And this implies that the markets were slippery and muddy, and yet the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not combine 'Asr with the Friday prayer. If combining 'Asr with the Friday prayer had been permissible, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would have combined them on the first and second Friday, because the excuse was present. As for the claim of hardship, say: if a person has an appointment on a plane that takes off a quarter of an hour before Fajr and the person is to travel on it, and he says it is hard for me to pray on the plane, so I will pray Fajr a quarter of an hour before the entrance of Fajr, is that permissible or not? It is not permissible. This is the same thing. And accordingly, whoever combined 'Asr with the Friday prayer at any time in the past must now repeat it, because it remains a debt upon him, since he prayed it before its time without any Shari'ah evidence.