Is it valid to shorten the prayer and combine it for those who work daily in a distance exceeding one hundred and fifty kilometers, given that they reach the city for the 'Asr prayer?
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The questioner : He says: Is it valid to shorten the prayer and combine it for those who work daily in a distance of one hundred and fifty...
The Shaykh : In what?
The questioner : in a distance exceeding one hundred and fifty kilometers daily, given that they reach the city for the 'Asr prayer?
The Shaykh : This is a matter of disagreement among the scholars. That is, people whose jobs are one hundred and fifty kilometers or one hundred kilometers away from their homes. Some scholars say: They may shorten and combine, because this is travel, and these are the ones who define travel by distance.
And some scholars said: They do not shorten and do not combine, because these people are not called travelers; rather, they are workers in a place to which they return to their families before nightfall. The precaution in my view is that they do not combine and do not shorten. Yes, as for combining, if it were the case that they say: When we arrive at our families, we arrive tired, and we fear that if we sleep we will not get up, then in this case we may say it is permissible for them to combine by advancing the prayer. And when they arrive at their families, they sleep due to the fatigue. As for shortening, the precaution is that they do not shorten. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : In what?
The questioner : in a distance exceeding one hundred and fifty kilometers daily, given that they reach the city for the 'Asr prayer?
The Shaykh : This is a matter of disagreement among the scholars. That is, people whose jobs are one hundred and fifty kilometers or one hundred kilometers away from their homes. Some scholars say: They may shorten and combine, because this is travel, and these are the ones who define travel by distance.
And some scholars said: They do not shorten and do not combine, because these people are not called travelers; rather, they are workers in a place to which they return to their families before nightfall. The precaution in my view is that they do not combine and do not shorten. Yes, as for combining, if it were the case that they say: When we arrive at our families, we arrive tired, and we fear that if we sleep we will not get up, then in this case we may say it is permissible for them to combine by advancing the prayer. And when they arrive at their families, they sleep due to the fatigue. As for shortening, the precaution is that they do not shorten. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.