Ruling on combining two prayers for an elderly person
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Question:
The first message in this episode is from one of our brother listeners, containing two questions:
In his first question, he says: I have an elderly father who combines the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers; he prays Maghrib and then 'Isha'. When I advise him, he says that he cannot maintain his wudu' and cannot stand up at the time of 'Isha'. What is your opinion? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow his guidance. As for what follows:
If your father is unable to pray at its proper time, there is no harm in combining the two prayers, just as a sick person does. The ruling for an elderly person who is unable is the same as the ruling for a sick person; if he needs to combine, there is no harm. However, if he is able to stand for 'Isha' at its time and Maghrib at its time without great hardship, he should not combine. And if he is able to pray with the people in the mosques, it is obligatory for him to pray with the people in the mosques. But if he is unable, cannot pray in the mosque, and cannot pray at the second time—meaning 'Isha'—then he combines, and there is no blame on him, just as a sick person or a traveler combines.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good. The one being asked about, may Allah honor the Shaykh, is sick and elderly.
The Shaykh: There is no harm, if Allah wills, for both reasons, for the two causes.
The presenter: For the two causes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The presenter: May Allah bless you and reward you with good.
The first message in this episode is from one of our brother listeners, containing two questions:
In his first question, he says: I have an elderly father who combines the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers; he prays Maghrib and then 'Isha'. When I advise him, he says that he cannot maintain his wudu' and cannot stand up at the time of 'Isha'. What is your opinion? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow his guidance. As for what follows:
If your father is unable to pray at its proper time, there is no harm in combining the two prayers, just as a sick person does. The ruling for an elderly person who is unable is the same as the ruling for a sick person; if he needs to combine, there is no harm. However, if he is able to stand for 'Isha' at its time and Maghrib at its time without great hardship, he should not combine. And if he is able to pray with the people in the mosques, it is obligatory for him to pray with the people in the mosques. But if he is unable, cannot pray in the mosque, and cannot pray at the second time—meaning 'Isha'—then he combines, and there is no blame on him, just as a sick person or a traveler combines.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good. The one being asked about, may Allah honor the Shaykh, is sick and elderly.
The Shaykh: There is no harm, if Allah wills, for both reasons, for the two causes.
The presenter: For the two causes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The presenter: May Allah bless you and reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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