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16 / 07 / 2026
Please note: this fatwa has been translated by artificial intelligence.
Combining Prayers While Traveling for Those Who Did Not Leave Before Dawn
A lady went out for a walk from Zarqa to the Dead Sea, and the journey took her three hours, including shopping along the way and the distance to reach. She and her companions performed the Dhuhr and Asr prayers combined in advance. Is their action correct, knowing that I heard that the condition for combining prayers is that one must leave the house before dawn?
Answer
I say, and with God's help: Whoever travels a distance considered as travel, which is more than eighty kilometers, must shorten the four-unit prayers, and this is only permissible after leaving the buildings. It is not a condition to leave before dawn, and there is a difference of opinion regarding combining prayers. In our school of thought, there is no combining, and God knows best.
