What is the distance for shortening the prayer while traveling?
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Question:
If a person travels from Riyadh to Uyaynah, does he shorten the prayer or complete it?
Answer:
Uyaynah is close; it is not far.
Q: What is the distance for shortening?
The Shaykh: It appears to be less than that. The rule is approximately eighty kilometers, a day and a night, like the distance between Makkah and al-Ta'if, or Makkah and Jeddah.
If a person travels from Riyadh to Uyaynah, does he shorten the prayer or complete it?
Answer:
Uyaynah is close; it is not far.
Q: What is the distance for shortening?
The Shaykh: It appears to be less than that. The rule is approximately eighty kilometers, a day and a night, like the distance between Makkah and al-Ta'if, or Makkah and Jeddah.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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