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Combining prayers for the resident<\/span><\/h1>\r\n

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source: fat\u0101w\u0101 jeddah ~ rulings from jeddah ~ tape no. 13<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Question #5: “Is it allowed for the resident to combine between two prayers without (the presence of) rain?”<\/span>
Shaykh al-Alb\u0101n\u012b answers:<\/span>
“Im\u0101m Muslim brought out in his Sah\u012bh, the had\u012bth on the authority of Ibn \u02bdAbb\u0101s who said: ‘The Messenger of All\u0101h (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) combined (prayers) in Mad\u012bnah between Dhuhr and \u02bdAsr, and between Maghrib and \u02bdIsh\u0101, without (being in a state of) traveling or (the presence of) rain.’ They said, ‘What did he intend by that O Abu l-\u02bdAbb\u0101s[1] {the kunya of \u02bdAbdull\u0101h bin \u02bdAbb\u0101s}?’ He said, ‘He wanted to not put his ummah into difficulties.’[2] So the apparent meaning of the had\u012bth is that it is permissible to combine between two prayers in the state of residence and without the excuse of rain, because rain is an Islamically legislated excuse that allows combining between two prayers. And here Ibn \u02bdAbb\u0101s says that the Prophet (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) combined as a resident and combined without the excuse of rain. And he confirmed that when the previous question was addressed to him: ‘Why did he do that?’ (Ibn ‘Abb\u0101s) said, ‘He wanted to not put his ummah into difficulties.’ This is the had\u012bth and it is in Sah\u012bh Muslim but not al-Bukh\u0101ri. There is the like of this had\u012bth in al-Bukh\u0101ri, (mentioning that) he combined between the prayers in Mad\u012bnah as eight (rak\u02bdah),[3] but there isn’t this detail that Im\u0101m Muslim mentioned or narrated from Ibn \u02bdAbb\u0101s, in which there is this important point that is the answer to this question, namely his (radiAll\u0101hu ‘anhu) saying: ‘He wanted to not put his ummah into difficulties.’<\/span>
So some of the scholars in old times and recent times believe in the permissibility of this combining during residence without an excuse, and I don’t consider that to be correct; that is because the narrator of the had\u012bth explains the combining of the Messenger (of All\u0101h) (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) without an excuse, to be another excuse as a method of legislating (from All\u0101h) and explaining to the people, since Ibn \u02bdAbb\u0101s said, ‘He (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) wanted to not put his ummah into difficulties.’ And the meaning of that is: the ruling of combining during residence is tied to the presence of difficulty (that would arise) due to not combining. So when there is difficulty in performing the prayers in their known appointed times, it is permissible to combine in order to remove the difficulty, which Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, has removed in the likes of His Saying: ‘And He has not laid upon you in religion any hardship.’[4] As for if there is no difficulty, then it is obligatory to maintain performing the five prayers, each prayer in its (due) time, because there is no difficulty.<\/span>
For example, I am sitting here and I hear the adh\u0101n (call to prayer) there in the masjid near me, while I am capable of going out and there is no difficulty upon me at all to go out, so it is not permissible for me to combine. And the opposite of that as well; when I came in this journey, I found this electric elevator to be out of order, and it is very difficult for me, as you see because of a pain in my two knees, to go down or up by way of stairs. So some prayers passed by me (but) I didn’t go out to the masjid. But when the electric elevator was fixed such that it saved me the difficulty of descending and ascending, it became obligatory upon me to pray every prayer in the masjid because I did not find this difficulty that I had found when I had just moved here. Therefore, combining is only allowed for the purpose of removing a difficulty; so, when there is no difficulty, there is no combining. They are two inseparable affairs: no difficulty, no combining; (but if) there is difficulty, there is (the possibility and permissibility of) combining. And this is the best that can be said with regard to reconciling between this authentic had\u012bth and those ah\u0101d\u012bth that came stating that every prayer (is to be prayed) in its (due) time[5] and that it is not allowed to distract oneself from it – especially because in most circumstances, combining requires abandoning prayer with the congregation, as I described to you my first situation (with the electric elevator).”<\/span><\/p>\r\n

~ asaheeha translations ~<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[1] The addition “O Abu l-\u02bdAbb\u0101s” is found in Musnad Ahmad 4\/192<\/span>
[2] Sah\u012bh Muslim #705<\/span>
[3] Sah\u012bh al-Bukh\u0101r\u012b #543<\/span>
[4] S\u016brat ul-Hajj, 22:78<\/span>
[5] Sah\u012bh Muslim #648<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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