What is the amount of rain that permits combining the prayers?
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The Shaykh : What about the rain? I didn't understand, meaning I didn't hear.
The questioner : I say: the quantity, the quantity.
The Shaykh : We need the quantity, that's it.
The questioner : That which wets the clothes.
The Shaykh : We need an observatory to calculate it for us and give us precise information.
The questioner : I mean a lot, meaning light rain; is there evidence for that?
The Shaykh : As soon as it is true that rain has fallen, or do I rely on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): This is a hadith for which we do not know a sound chain, but the falling of rain is understood by all people, and it is not from the Shari'ah to be overly strict in being precise in these matters, because as came in some authentic hadiths: And in another wording, I used to see it in the takhrij of the hadiths of *Ihya' al-'Ulum al-Din*: And that suffices for that, or for this hadith, is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): So we are not obligated to be precise in such issues.
The questioner : I say: the quantity, the quantity.
The Shaykh : We need the quantity, that's it.
The questioner : That which wets the clothes.
The Shaykh : We need an observatory to calculate it for us and give us precise information.
The questioner : I mean a lot, meaning light rain; is there evidence for that?
The Shaykh : As soon as it is true that rain has fallen, or do I rely on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):