What is the reality of formal combining?
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The questioner : ... These people ... say that it is a formal combining ... .
The Shaykh : Excuse me, why don't I know, and you are a group of Arabs and you say: formal; formal, formal; meaning, we have two types of combining: formal combining and real combining. The images have no relation to this, formal combining. They call it formal because in form it is a combining, but in reality it is not a combining; therefore they called it formal combining. Formal combining is when you delay the Maghrib prayer until close to the Isha prayer; for example, if the Isha adhan is called at seven o'clock, you barely finish the Maghrib prayer, "Peace be upon you, peace be upon you," and what happens? The adhan is called. Here you have not combined; because you prayed the prayer in its time, but this is a formal combining; because from here you said the taslim and from here the time of the second prayer entered. As for the real combining, it is that you, especially in the case of combining by advancing.
Likewise, combining by delaying, but combining by advancing reveals the reality of combining in a clearer sense; the Maghrib adhan is called and the rain is falling, we prayed Maghrib and the iqamah was called and he prayed Isha; this is a real combining by advancing. Or, for example, Maghrib, I was busy with work that the Shari'ah excuses me for, so I was praying what? Combining by delaying. I did it this way until I heard the adhan of Isha, then I stood up with the intention of the obligatory Maghrib and then the obligatory Isha; this is a real combining by delaying.
As for that formal one; the Hanafis speak of formal combining, and this is in reality an exaggeration on their part in preserving the principle; which is that it is better to pray in its time, but the dispensation from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not reach them; where he used to delay the Zuhr prayer in travel to the beginning of the time of Asr, as in "Sahih Muslim," he used to delay the Zuhr prayer to the beginning of the Asr prayer ... this is an explicit text, but the early Hanafis are excused because it did not reach them, as for these later followers, it is not permissible for them to prefer the saying of any human being over the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Sunnah, no matter how high they rise.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The questioner : ... saying ... without fear or rain. Meaning ... real combining; because real combining is with fear and with rain, so his saying: combining without fear or rain; its meaning is the combining itself that is known.
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The Shaykh : Excuse me, why don't I know, and you are a group of Arabs and you say: formal; formal, formal; meaning, we have two types of combining: formal combining and real combining. The images have no relation to this, formal combining. They call it formal because in form it is a combining, but in reality it is not a combining; therefore they called it formal combining. Formal combining is when you delay the Maghrib prayer until close to the Isha prayer; for example, if the Isha adhan is called at seven o'clock, you barely finish the Maghrib prayer, "Peace be upon you, peace be upon you," and what happens? The adhan is called. Here you have not combined; because you prayed the prayer in its time, but this is a formal combining; because from here you said the taslim and from here the time of the second prayer entered. As for the real combining, it is that you, especially in the case of combining by advancing.
Likewise, combining by delaying, but combining by advancing reveals the reality of combining in a clearer sense; the Maghrib adhan is called and the rain is falling, we prayed Maghrib and the iqamah was called and he prayed Isha; this is a real combining by advancing. Or, for example, Maghrib, I was busy with work that the Shari'ah excuses me for, so I was praying what? Combining by delaying. I did it this way until I heard the adhan of Isha, then I stood up with the intention of the obligatory Maghrib and then the obligatory Isha; this is a real combining by delaying.
As for that formal one; the Hanafis speak of formal combining, and this is in reality an exaggeration on their part in preserving the principle; which is that it is better to pray in its time, but the dispensation from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not reach them; where he used to delay the Zuhr prayer in travel to the beginning of the time of Asr, as in "Sahih Muslim," he used to delay the Zuhr prayer to the beginning of the Asr prayer ... this is an explicit text, but the early Hanafis are excused because it did not reach them, as for these later followers, it is not permissible for them to prefer the saying of any human being over the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Sunnah, no matter how high they rise.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The questioner : ... saying ... without fear or rain. Meaning ... real combining; because real combining is with fear and with rain, so his saying: combining without fear or rain; its meaning is the combining itself that is known.
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