What is the ruling in the Shari'ah regarding the prayer of the traveler, given that I go to my place of work daily, and the workplace is about eighty-five kilometers from my residence?
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The questioner : The listener Muhammad Ibrahim says in this question: What is the ruling in the Shari'ah regarding the prayer of the traveler, given that I go to my place of work daily, and the workplace is about eighty-five kilometers from my residence, and work starts from Fajr until the end of 'Isha' prayer? Do I have the right to combine Zuhr with 'Asr and Maghrib with 'Isha', and is my prayer valid with this? I hope for your guidance?
The Shaykh : Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said:[An-Nisa 4:101] And in the authentic hadith of Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: Bulugh al-Maram 2:343.
And you are in your work which you go to daily, and it is eighty-five kilometers from your residence, but you return and spend the night with your family. Some scholars consider you a traveler, and these are the ones who define the distance, or rather, who define travel by distance, because the distance for shortening the prayer is thirty-three kilometers and three hundred and a few dozen meters, and you have exceeded this distance. So you may shorten the prayer even if you return to your residence and spend the night there.
As for those who hold that travel is what is called travel, it appears that your workplace, which you referred to and from which you return, and where the night finds you, or where you spend the night with your family, does not appear to be called travel. In that case, you do not shorten and you do not combine.
What I see for you in this situation is to complete the prayer and not shorten it, and to perform each prayer in its time without combining. And if you do shorten and combine, there is no blame on you, if Allah wills. Yes.
The Shaykh : Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said:
And when you travel throughout the land, there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer
وإذا ضربتم في الأرض فليس عليكم جناح أن تقصروا من الصلاةWhen Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) went out on a journey of three miles or three Farasikh, he (ﷺ) used to pray two Rak'at.
كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا خرج ثلاثة أميال أو فراسخ صلى ركعتينAnd you are in your work which you go to daily, and it is eighty-five kilometers from your residence, but you return and spend the night with your family. Some scholars consider you a traveler, and these are the ones who define the distance, or rather, who define travel by distance, because the distance for shortening the prayer is thirty-three kilometers and three hundred and a few dozen meters, and you have exceeded this distance. So you may shorten the prayer even if you return to your residence and spend the night there.
As for those who hold that travel is what is called travel, it appears that your workplace, which you referred to and from which you return, and where the night finds you, or where you spend the night with your family, does not appear to be called travel. In that case, you do not shorten and you do not combine.
What I see for you in this situation is to complete the prayer and not shorten it, and to perform each prayer in its time without combining. And if you do shorten and combine, there is no blame on you, if Allah wills. Yes.