What Determines Travel
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Does the consideration of traveling on land as travel depend on custom? I hope you will clarify this, and also clarify whether traveling from Makkah to Jeddah is considered travel or not?
This issue is a matter of scholarly disagreement: Is travel determined by distance, or by time?Or by custom: The majority of scholars hold that it is determined by distance. Thus, if one reaches a distance of approximately eighty-one kilometers, it is considered travel, even if a person covers it in half an hour, or returns on the same day.
And some of the scholars say: The criterion is custom. What people consider travel is travel, and what they do not consider travel is not travel.So according to this: For example, if a person travels by plane to Riyadh and returns on the same day, people consider it travel because of the distance to Riyadh. But if he goes to Buraydah, has lunch with a friend, and then returns, they do not consider it travel because of the short distance.And this is closer to the truth: The criterion is custom, but there is a difficulty with this: custom is not consistent or regulated. Some people may consider this travel, while others may not. Therefore, people cannot regulate this issue unless we say: that it is determined by distance.
If you intend to travel a distance of eighty-one kilometers or more, you are a traveler. If it is less than that, you are not a traveler.
As for Makkah and Jeddah, the distance between them in the past was undoubtedly a distance for shortening the prayer. But now it is not, because both have expanded and come closer to each other, so the distance between Makkah and Jeddah no longer reaches the distance for shortening.
And I tell you: The correct view is with those who say that the criterion is custom.This indicates: The people of Makkah performed Hajj with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), gathered with him, and shortened the prayer with him at 'Arafah and Muzdalifah, and this does not reach the distance that those who determine travel by distance have set.
This issue is a matter of scholarly disagreement: Is travel determined by distance, or by time?Or by custom: The majority of scholars hold that it is determined by distance. Thus, if one reaches a distance of approximately eighty-one kilometers, it is considered travel, even if a person covers it in half an hour, or returns on the same day.
And some of the scholars say: The criterion is custom. What people consider travel is travel, and what they do not consider travel is not travel.So according to this: For example, if a person travels by plane to Riyadh and returns on the same day, people consider it travel because of the distance to Riyadh. But if he goes to Buraydah, has lunch with a friend, and then returns, they do not consider it travel because of the short distance.And this is closer to the truth: The criterion is custom, but there is a difficulty with this: custom is not consistent or regulated. Some people may consider this travel, while others may not. Therefore, people cannot regulate this issue unless we say: that it is determined by distance.
If you intend to travel a distance of eighty-one kilometers or more, you are a traveler. If it is less than that, you are not a traveler.
As for Makkah and Jeddah, the distance between them in the past was undoubtedly a distance for shortening the prayer. But now it is not, because both have expanded and come closer to each other, so the distance between Makkah and Jeddah no longer reaches the distance for shortening.
And I tell you: The correct view is with those who say that the criterion is custom.This indicates: The people of Makkah performed Hajj with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), gathered with him, and shortened the prayer with him at 'Arafah and Muzdalifah, and this does not reach the distance that those who determine travel by distance have set.