Discussion of issues related to combining prayers. (Unclear)?
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The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : If the heat is so intense that it is not permissible for most of the day, but if the heat is not such that it can be endured in a few hours of the morning, then if they are truly believers, they must make provision for the prayer so that it does not fall in the time of... They estimate it; if the heat is, for example, four hours, they start at seven and finish at eleven. But if the heat is widespread... and intense, the way out in this case is the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas, who said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined the Dhuhr and 'Asr prayers and the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers in Madinah without fear or rain". They asked, "What did he intend by that, O Ibn 'Abbas?" He said: "He intended not to cause hardship for his Ummah". So wherever there is hardship in staying, there is combining. Therefore, this distinction is necessary. It is not that one throws himself into hardship and then says: I am unable to...
The questioner : ...without fear or rain... that combining is permissible in the rain... in hardship?
The Shaykh : Of course... this is a legal cause for combining.
The questioner : That is, there is no other text regarding combining...
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : I did not understand your first statement.
The Shaykh : If the heat is so intense that it is not permissible for most of the day, but if the heat is not such that it can be endured in a few hours of the morning, then if they are truly believers, they must make provision for the prayer so that it does not fall in the time of... They estimate it; if the heat is, for example, four hours, they start at seven and finish at eleven. But if the heat is widespread... and intense, the way out in this case is the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas, who said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined the Dhuhr and 'Asr prayers and the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers in Madinah without fear or rain". They asked, "What did he intend by that, O Ibn 'Abbas?" He said: "He intended not to cause hardship for his Ummah". So wherever there is hardship in staying, there is combining. Therefore, this distinction is necessary. It is not that one throws himself into hardship and then says: I am unable to...
The questioner : ...without fear or rain... that combining is permissible in the rain... in hardship?
The Shaykh : Of course... this is a legal cause for combining.
The questioner : That is, there is no other text regarding combining...
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : I did not understand your first statement.