What is the legal evidence for the permissibility of combining the two prayers by advancing them?
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Al-Halabi : The question asks: What is the legal evidence for the permissibility of combining the two prayers by advancing them? And if the evidence is cited, what is the ruling on restricting oneself to it without combining by delaying, as many Muslims do today?
The Shaykh : First: I want to correct the question or at least clarify it, specifically the phrase at the end of the question: "as Muslims do today."
Muslims today combine prayers because of rain. This rain necessitates that the combination be by advancing, not by delaying. So it seems the questioner is unaware or does not know that combining for rain is explicitly mentioned in the hadith narrated by Muslim from 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 travel or rain." They asked: "What did he intend by that, O Abu al-Abbas?" (Abu al-Abbas is the kunya of Abdullah ibn Abbas). "What did he intend by that, O Abu al-Abbas?" He said: "He intended by that not to cause hardship for his Ummah."
The point of the hadith is the statement of Ibn Abbas: "without travel or rain." Here, there is an indication that it was established and known to the people addressed that combining due to the excuse of travel and combining due to the excuse of rain was a well-known and famous matter among them. Therefore, when he wanted to explain the combining of the Messenger (peace be upon him) in Madinah, while he was resident and there was no rain there, that he only combined to remove hardship from the Ummah, they asked him: "What did he intend by that, O Abu al-Abbas?" He said: "He intended not to cause hardship for his Ummah." So combining for rain is a matter explicitly mentioned in this hadith, and perhaps in others, and practice has followed it among Muslims in the past and present. It is not a bid'ah (religious innovation), but rather a sunnah (recommended practice) and a rukhsah (dispensation). Therefore, if it is combining for rain, it is self-evident that the combination should be by advancing, not by delaying. As for whether there are other hadiths regarding combining by advancing? We say: Yes, but they are specific to or reported in the context of travel. We do not have an explicit hadith regarding combining by advancing in the state of residence, except what is necessitated by reality, which is that rain falls and the prayer is Dhuhr or Maghrib, so it is combined with the one following it.
Perhaps I have covered the answer to the question, is there anything else?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: All right.
The Shaykh : First: I want to correct the question or at least clarify it, specifically the phrase at the end of the question: "as Muslims do today."
Muslims today combine prayers because of rain. This rain necessitates that the combination be by advancing, not by delaying. So it seems the questioner is unaware or does not know that combining for rain is explicitly mentioned in the hadith narrated by Muslim from 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 travel or rain." They asked: "What did he intend by that, O Abu al-Abbas?" (Abu al-Abbas is the kunya of Abdullah ibn Abbas). "What did he intend by that, O Abu al-Abbas?" He said: "He intended by that not to cause hardship for his Ummah."
The point of the hadith is the statement of Ibn Abbas: "without travel or rain." Here, there is an indication that it was established and known to the people addressed that combining due to the excuse of travel and combining due to the excuse of rain was a well-known and famous matter among them. Therefore, when he wanted to explain the combining of the Messenger (peace be upon him) in Madinah, while he was resident and there was no rain there, that he only combined to remove hardship from the Ummah, they asked him: "What did he intend by that, O Abu al-Abbas?" He said: "He intended not to cause hardship for his Ummah." So combining for rain is a matter explicitly mentioned in this hadith, and perhaps in others, and practice has followed it among Muslims in the past and present. It is not a bid'ah (religious innovation), but rather a sunnah (recommended practice) and a rukhsah (dispensation). Therefore, if it is combining for rain, it is self-evident that the combination should be by advancing, not by delaying. As for whether there are other hadiths regarding combining by advancing? We say: Yes, but they are specific to or reported in the context of travel. We do not have an explicit hadith regarding combining by advancing in the state of residence, except what is necessitated by reality, which is that rain falls and the prayer is Dhuhr or Maghrib, so it is combined with the one following it.
Perhaps I have covered the answer to the question, is there anything else?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: All right.
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