ruling on combining the prayers for one who is a resident and not traveling:

from precious gems from the works of shaykh al-albaani by asaheeha
source: fataawa jeddah – rulings (from) jeddah – tape no. 13


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shaykh al-albaani (rahimahullaah) answers a question regarding combining the prayers for one who is a resident and not traveling:




“The hadeeth of ibn ‘Abbaas [radi Allaahu 'anhu] that Imaam Muslim brought out in his Saheeh, from ibn ‘Abbaas who said: ‘The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) combined in Madinah between Dhuhr and ‘Asr, and between Maghrib and ‘Ishaa, without [being in a state of] traveling or [without there being any] rain. They said, ‘What did he [sallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam] intend by that O Abul ‘Abbaas (the kunya of ‘Abdullaah bin ‘Abbaas)?’…He said, ‘He [sallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam] wanted that his ummah should not be put to hardship’…’




So what is apparent from the hadeeth is that it is permissible to combine between two prayers in the state of being a resident and without the excuse of [there being] rain, because [the presence of] rain is a legitimate excuse [for which it is] allowed to combine between two prayers. And here ibn ‘Abbaas says that the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa aalihi wa sallam) combined [the prayers] while being a resident and combined without the excuse of [there being] rain…




So some of the scholars of the past and present go so far as to permit this combining [of prayers] during residency without [there being any] excuse, and I don’t see that as correct. That is because the narrator of the hadeeth explains the combining of the Messenger (‘alayhi ssalaam) without an excuse, as another excuse [in order to] legislate [from Allaah] and the explain to the people, as ibn ‘Abbaas said, ‘He wanted that his ummah should not be put to hardship,’ (‘alayhi ssalaat wa ssalaam). And the meaning of this is [that]…when difficulty is found in establishing the prayers in their known appointed times…, combining is permissible. As for if there is no difficulty, then it is obligatory to preserve/maintain performing the five prayers, each prayer [being prayed] in its due time, because there is no difficulty…




So where there is no difficulty, there is no combining [of the prayers], and these are two correlative/ inseparable affairs. No difficulty, no combining. [If] there is difficulty, there is [the possibility and permissibility of] combining.”




i took this from one sister's blog because i thought it was an interesting issue that people should know. jazakumullahu khaira

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