If a person goes to study outside his country, is he permitted to shorten the prayer?
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The questioner : If a person goes to study outside the Kingdom, is he permitted to shorten the prayer?
The Shaykh : First, I say in answer to the questioner’s question: does the traveler there take advantage of the dispensations for travel, or does he not?
This is a point of disagreement among the scholars. Some scholars said: if the traveler intends to stay for more than four days, the ruling of travel is cut off for him, so he does not take the dispensation of shortening the prayer, nor combining them, nor wiping over the leather socks or socks for more than a day and a night.
Some of them limited it to fifteen days, and some limited it to nineteen days. The disagreement on this matter is widespread, and some scholars have brought it to about twenty opinions. The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) has good words on this topic, which Ibn al-Qasim mentioned in "Majmu' al-Fatawa" at the beginning of the chapter on the Friday prayer. So whoever wishes to look into it should refer to it, for it is very beneficial.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh : First, I say in answer to the questioner’s question: does the traveler there take advantage of the dispensations for travel, or does he not?
This is a point of disagreement among the scholars. Some scholars said: if the traveler intends to stay for more than four days, the ruling of travel is cut off for him, so he does not take the dispensation of shortening the prayer, nor combining them, nor wiping over the leather socks or socks for more than a day and a night.
Some of them limited it to fifteen days, and some limited it to nineteen days. The disagreement on this matter is widespread, and some scholars have brought it to about twenty opinions. The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) has good words on this topic, which Ibn al-Qasim mentioned in "Majmu' al-Fatawa" at the beginning of the chapter on the Friday prayer. So whoever wishes to look into it should refer to it, for it is very beneficial.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O honorable Shaykh.