Does the traveler shorten and combine prayers if he stays in a place for two, three, or four days?
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The questioner : A question on the same topic: I am a traveler, and the matter is one of travel. Do I shorten and combine, or do I only shorten without combining? That is, I have arrived at the place I traveled to and stayed for two, three, four days, and so on. Do I combine with the shortening, or not?
The Shaykh : Your question contains two questions: Does the traveler shorten and combine, or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Your first question, your second question: he stayed in the country he traveled to for two or three days. That is a second matter. The answer regarding staying is also in need of some detail. If he intends to stay, he is a resident. If he does not intend to stay, he is a traveler. In other words, wait, in other words, did he intend to stay or not? How is this? A man settles in a town to attend to his affairs, and he does not know when these affairs will end. So he says, "When my affair is done, or when I have achieved my purpose, I will travel after one day, after two days." This is the one who is undecided, and the ruling of the traveler applies to him. As for the one who intends to stay, when does a person intend to stay? When he feels a sense of stability and that there are no transactions he wants to continue, like many people who go for a picnic, or as they say today, for recreation and rest. These are residents, not travelers, even if it is for five days, or a week, and so on. So, if we know the difference between staying in the country of travel and the ruling of travel, the answer will come to you at that time, whether he is on the road of travel or has settled in the country he traveled to. If his stay is an undecided stay, where he does not know how many days he will stay and has not intended to stay, then he is a traveler. At that time, we say: shortening is obligatory for him, whether during his travel and movement, or during his temporary stay, whether it is this or that. So, shortening in travel is obligatory, and the one who completes the prayer commits a sin. As for combining the two prayers, it is a dispensation. The principle of a dispensation is that it is to be taken and done, but that is not an obligatory matter in the first place, nor is it prescribed permanently and eternally in the second place, because it is not a default ruling like shortening in travel. Combining is a dispensation, not a default ruling. The nature of a dispensation is to alternate; that is, one combines at times and separates at times. As for shortening, it is obligatory based on many, many proofs. Among them is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him), when it was said to him: "Why do we shorten while we are safe?" He said:Sunan Abi Dawud 1199Sahih (Al-Albani).
Please, what do you have? Who is the one who is in a hurry? I forgot, he forgot, it is over.
The questioner : Let us continue the question.
The Shaykh : What do you have?
The questioner : Regarding it.
The Shaykh : He forgot, let him review himself.
The questioner : Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings, my master.
The Shaykh : Your question contains two questions: Does the traveler shorten and combine, or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Your first question, your second question: he stayed in the country he traveled to for two or three days. That is a second matter. The answer regarding staying is also in need of some detail. If he intends to stay, he is a resident. If he does not intend to stay, he is a traveler. In other words, wait, in other words, did he intend to stay or not? How is this? A man settles in a town to attend to his affairs, and he does not know when these affairs will end. So he says, "When my affair is done, or when I have achieved my purpose, I will travel after one day, after two days." This is the one who is undecided, and the ruling of the traveler applies to him. As for the one who intends to stay, when does a person intend to stay? When he feels a sense of stability and that there are no transactions he wants to continue, like many people who go for a picnic, or as they say today, for recreation and rest. These are residents, not travelers, even if it is for five days, or a week, and so on. So, if we know the difference between staying in the country of travel and the ruling of travel, the answer will come to you at that time, whether he is on the road of travel or has settled in the country he traveled to. If his stay is an undecided stay, where he does not know how many days he will stay and has not intended to stay, then he is a traveler. At that time, we say: shortening is obligatory for him, whether during his travel and movement, or during his temporary stay, whether it is this or that. So, shortening in travel is obligatory, and the one who completes the prayer commits a sin. As for combining the two prayers, it is a dispensation. The principle of a dispensation is that it is to be taken and done, but that is not an obligatory matter in the first place, nor is it prescribed permanently and eternally in the second place, because it is not a default ruling like shortening in travel. Combining is a dispensation, not a default ruling. The nature of a dispensation is to alternate; that is, one combines at times and separates at times. As for shortening, it is obligatory based on many, many proofs. Among them is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him), when it was said to him: "Why do we shorten while we are safe?" He said:
It is an act of charity which Allah has done to you, so accept his charity.
صدقةٌ تصدَّق الله بها عليكم ؛ فاقبلوا صدقتهPlease, what do you have? Who is the one who is in a hurry? I forgot, he forgot, it is over.
The questioner : Let us continue the question.
The Shaykh : What do you have?
The questioner : Regarding it.
The Shaykh : He forgot, let him review himself.
The questioner : Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings, my master.
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