The ruling on shortening the prayer while traveling and determining the distance at which shortening is permissible
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. The listener, Abd al-Hamid Ahmad Abd al-Hamid from the Sultanate of Oman, sent a question and says: I have read a lot about shortening the prayer and about the distance that permits a man or a woman to shorten the prayer, but I am confused about which opinion to follow. Please guide me to the correct opinion in this matter. May Allah reward you with good. Yes. He says: I have read a lot about shortening the prayer, and at that point I was confused; which opinion should I follow? Please guide me to the correct opinion in this matter. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Shortening the prayer is a dispensation for the traveler. Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) said:[An-Nisa 4:101] And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), in his established and consistent Sunnah, never left off shortening the prayer in any of his travels; rather, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would shorten the prayer from the time he set out until he returned from his journey.
Shortening the prayer is a dispensation for travel, but the travel must be established, and that is by reaching the distance at which the prayer is shortened. This distance is two days on a mount, which is approximately eighty kilometers by the known measures today. That is, it does not reach two stages, each stage being forty kilometers, so the total of the two stages is approximately eighty kilometers. If the distance extends to this amount, shortening the prayer is prescribed. If the distance is between this amount and traveling a two-day journey, and with her is a mahram (a relative one may not marry), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made the mahram a condition for a woman traveling a distance that reaches two days. This indicates that what reaches two days is called travel, and a mahram is required for a woman in such travel. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. The listener, Abd al-Hamid Ahmad Abd al-Hamid from the Sultanate of Oman, sent a question and says: I have read a lot about shortening the prayer and about the distance that permits a man or a woman to shorten the prayer, but I am confused about which opinion to follow. Please guide me to the correct opinion in this matter. May Allah reward you with good. Yes. He says: I have read a lot about shortening the prayer, and at that point I was confused; which opinion should I follow? Please guide me to the correct opinion in this matter. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Shortening the prayer is a dispensation for the traveler. Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) said:
And when you travel throughout the land, there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer
وَإِذَا ضَرَبْتُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَن تَقْصُرُوا مِنَ الصَّلَاةِShortening the prayer is a dispensation for travel, but the travel must be established, and that is by reaching the distance at which the prayer is shortened. This distance is two days on a mount, which is approximately eighty kilometers by the known measures today. That is, it does not reach two stages, each stage being forty kilometers, so the total of the two stages is approximately eighty kilometers. If the distance extends to this amount, shortening the prayer is prescribed. If the distance is between this amount and traveling a two-day journey, and with her is a mahram (a relative one may not marry), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made the mahram a condition for a woman traveling a distance that reaches two days. This indicates that what reaches two days is called travel, and a mahram is required for a woman in such travel. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4066- حكم القصر في السفر وتقدير المسافة التي يجوز فيها القصر - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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