If the Maghrib adhan is called and I am in the open countryside, and my clothes have been contaminated with impurity, and I have no other clothes with me, is it permissible for me to delay the Maghrib prayer until I return home?

The questioner : May Allah reward you and benefit people through you.
Is it permissible to delay the Maghrib prayer, and its time is short as you say, if I am in the open countryside and my clothes have been contaminated with impurity, and I have no other clothes with me until I reach home? Let me repeat it?

The Shaykh : No, I think the question is whether he reaches home after half the night, or when? The issue needs some clarification. There is no doubt that the prayer is not valid and is not permissible for one who is carrying impurity, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: So if a person is in a situation where he cannot purify his clothes, he should consider whether the impure garment that he is unable to wash is, for example, an inner garment. In this case, it can be said to him: take it off, and the other clothes, such as an abaya, for example, or a shirt, will suffice for you. If the contaminated item is, for example, trousers, and he is unable to wash them, it is said to him: take off your trousers and pray in the long shirt, especially since in the past, even women did not wear trousers, but they were content with wearing this long shirt, which is called in some countries the jalabiyyah or the dishdasha, or something similar. Linguistically, it is the shirt; it may be long or short. This is the way out so that the prayer is not delayed from its time: he takes off the impure garment and prays in the other garment.
As for if we assume and narrow the scenario to the point where he cannot pray except naked, then in that case, we say to him: if you can delay the prayer until before the exit of its time in order to wash the garment, that is the way out. But if that necessitates taking the prayer out of its time such that it is not prayed after the exit of its time, then in that case, he prays within the limits of what he is able to do. We have mentioned a scenario of ability, which is taking off the impure garment. If he has only this one garment, and the matter revolves between praying with his private parts exposed and praying with his private parts covered but in an impure garment, then here it is said: the lesser evil is preferred over the greater evil. So we say to him: pray in the impure garment, as it is less sinful, or erroneous, or ugly, than praying naked without covering the private parts, in the case of fearing that the prayer will be taken out of its time. Because if the prayer is taken out of its time, the obligated person cannot make it up except for one excuse out of two excuses, which are sleep or forgetfulness, due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Whoever forgets a prayer during his work, for example, he is distracted from the Zuhr prayer until the time of the Asr prayer enters. When he hears the Asr adhan, or is reminded by any other means that he did not pray Zuhr, then in that case, he immediately performs the Zuhr prayer, then the Asr prayer. Or, for example, he sleeps through the Zuhr prayer or the Fajr prayer and does not wake up for it except after it has exited its time. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) says in both cases, the case of sleeping through the prayer or the case of forgetting it, he said: Therefore, it is not permissible to delay the prayer on the basis that the garment is impure until the exit of its time. Rather, he strives to solve the problem by the nearest path, as we mentioned. Yes.