Is it prescribed to combine the Zuhr and 'Asr prayers for the sake of rain?
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The questioner : Is combining for the sake of rain also prescribed between Zuhr and 'Asr?
The Shaykh : And what prevents it?
The questioner : What is reported regarding 'Isha' for the night; some scholars restrict it to the night only due to the difficulty of going to the mosque.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you for the restriction. It is not a text from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but rather a consideration of what has occurred. And what has occurred does not negate the permissibility of its like if it occurs. So there is nothing preventing it if the cause is the falling of rain. And you know, if Allah wills, that there is another ruling related to dropping an obligatory act of worship merely because of the falling of rain, which is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on a rainy day that one should say after "Hayya 'ala al-salah" or "Hayya 'ala al-falah" or their equivalents: "Pray in your homes, pray in your homes." And the meaning of that is that he (peace and blessings be upon him) granted a dispensation to the one who is in his home, in his house, while the rains are pouring down, not to go to the mosque, knowing that going to the mosque is obligatory and praying with the congregation of Muslims is obligatory. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) dropped this obligation merely because of the falling of rains, so the person of obligation prays in his house. So what prevents combining, which is also a dispensation to bring the time of one prayer into the time of another prayer? What prevents it from being said that it is permissible to combine between Zuhr and 'Asr, even if there is no explicit text that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) did so? And this is within the limits of what we have seen, or at least within the limits of what we remember now. So if we assume that no explicit text has come to us that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) combined between Zuhr and 'Asr because of rain, but it has come that he combined between Maghrib and 'Isha', and since the cause of combining in praying in the house and not going to the mosque is rain, what prevents it from being said that since the Wise Lawgiver has been lenient with the community and granted them a dispensation to combine between the two prayers in one time, it can be said that because this specific formulation has not come, the non-occurrence of this specific formulation and the occurrence of a similar image does not negate the other image.
The Shaykh : And what prevents it?
The questioner : What is reported regarding 'Isha' for the night; some scholars restrict it to the night only due to the difficulty of going to the mosque.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you for the restriction. It is not a text from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but rather a consideration of what has occurred. And what has occurred does not negate the permissibility of its like if it occurs. So there is nothing preventing it if the cause is the falling of rain. And you know, if Allah wills, that there is another ruling related to dropping an obligatory act of worship merely because of the falling of rain, which is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on a rainy day that one should say after "Hayya 'ala al-salah" or "Hayya 'ala al-falah" or their equivalents: "Pray in your homes, pray in your homes." And the meaning of that is that he (peace and blessings be upon him) granted a dispensation to the one who is in his home, in his house, while the rains are pouring down, not to go to the mosque, knowing that going to the mosque is obligatory and praying with the congregation of Muslims is obligatory. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) dropped this obligation merely because of the falling of rains, so the person of obligation prays in his house. So what prevents combining, which is also a dispensation to bring the time of one prayer into the time of another prayer? What prevents it from being said that it is permissible to combine between Zuhr and 'Asr, even if there is no explicit text that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) did so? And this is within the limits of what we have seen, or at least within the limits of what we remember now. So if we assume that no explicit text has come to us that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) combined between Zuhr and 'Asr because of rain, but it has come that he combined between Maghrib and 'Isha', and since the cause of combining in praying in the house and not going to the mosque is rain, what prevents it from being said that since the Wise Lawgiver has been lenient with the community and granted them a dispensation to combine between the two prayers in one time, it can be said that because this specific formulation has not come, the non-occurrence of this specific formulation and the occurrence of a similar image does not negate the other image.