Is intention a condition for combining prayers?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Q: Is intention a condition for the permissibility of combining prayers? Often, people pray Maghrib without the intention to combine, and after the Maghrib prayer, the congregation consults and decides to combine, then they pray 'Isha'.
A: The scholars have differed on this, and the stronger position is that intention is not a condition at the beginning of the first prayer. Rather, it is permissible to combine after completing the first prayer if its condition is present, such as fear, rain, or illness.
A: The scholars have differed on this, and the stronger position is that intention is not a condition at the beginning of the first prayer. Rather, it is permissible to combine after completing the first prayer if its condition is present, such as fear, rain, or illness.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.