What is the ruling on one who issues a fatwa permitting the combining of prayers while resident without an excuse?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: A man appears to be upright. He roams about. He appears to be upright. He issues fatwas to the common people permitting the combining of the Dhuhr and Asr prayers, and the Maghrib and Isha' prayers, while resident, and without an excuse, meaning without fear, illness, travel, or rain. He and a group of common people in his town act upon this fatwa. What is the ruling in this matter?
Answer:
This entails two possibilities: either he is ignorant, and the words of an ignorant person are not to be taken, or he is misguiding people. It is not permissible to combine the two prayers except in the cases of legitimate legal excuses: travel, illness, or rain. These are three excuses: travel, which permits shortening the prayer, or illness, or rain that wets the clothes and harms people. It is permissible for them to combine the prayers in these three circumstances. As for combining the prayers without these excuses, it is invalid by the consensus of the scholars of knowledge. No one held this view except the deviants whose words are not to be taken, and no account is to be made of their statements.
Yes, Allah the Exalted and Majestic says:[An-Nisa 4:103] The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Pray the prayer at its appointed time. It is not permissible to neglect the times of prayer except in the three excuses: illness, travel, or rain. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: A man appears to be upright. He roams about. He appears to be upright. He issues fatwas to the common people permitting the combining of the Dhuhr and Asr prayers, and the Maghrib and Isha' prayers, while resident, and without an excuse, meaning without fear, illness, travel, or rain. He and a group of common people in his town act upon this fatwa. What is the ruling in this matter?
Answer:
This entails two possibilities: either he is ignorant, and the words of an ignorant person are not to be taken, or he is misguiding people. It is not permissible to combine the two prayers except in the cases of legitimate legal excuses: travel, illness, or rain. These are three excuses: travel, which permits shortening the prayer, or illness, or rain that wets the clothes and harms people. It is permissible for them to combine the prayers in these three circumstances. As for combining the prayers without these excuses, it is invalid by the consensus of the scholars of knowledge. No one held this view except the deviants whose words are not to be taken, and no account is to be made of their statements.
Yes, Allah the Exalted and Majestic says:
Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم من يفتي بجواز الجمع في الحضر بين الصلوات بلا عذر؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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