Travel

• What is the ruling on combining and shortening prayers (al-Jam' wal-Qasr)? And do the rulings of travel cease for a sick traveler who is hospitalized for a long period outside his region?
• Is it permissible for a resident of Muscat who travels to his village every Wednesday (300 km) to combine the Dhuhr and Asr prayers, either by offering them earlier or delaying them, according to the Hanbali madhhab?
• What is the ruling on praying the Sunnah of Maghrib, 'Isha, and Witr after combining the Maghrib and 'Isha prayers in advance due to difficult weather conditions, and are the Sunnah of 'Isha and Witr postponed until the time of 'Isha?
• What is the legally prescribed distance for shortening and combining prayers, and is it permissible to combine and shorten prayers when traveling a distance of 100 kilometers with a return on the same day, and what is the ruling on a traveler praying behind a resident imam?
• Is it permissible to combine the Maghrib and Isha prayers due to constant urinary dribbling, continuous flatulence, and incomplete bowel evacuation, knowing that these issues cause discomfort and abdominal pain, and affect purity and prayer, and the questioner has sought treatment without avail, and faces difficulty performing prayers on time, especially with the short interval between Maghrib and Isha prayers in winter?
• Is it obligatory for someone who prayed the Isha prayer by combining it with and shortening it after the Maghrib prayer to repeat it if they then canceled their journey and returned to their country before the time for Isha?
• Is it permissible for a traveler to combine and shorten prayers upon returning home after the Maghrib call to prayer, if they have not yet prayed Maghrib and Isha?
• Must she repeat the ‘Ishā’ prayer, or both prayers together, if the questioner intended to combine Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ by way of delaying (jam‘ ta’khīr), but then did not recall the intention of combining when she began the ‘Ishā’ prayer? And how does she make up two obligatory prayers that she had intended to combine: does she combine them, or make up each one separately? And what should she do in the case of obsessive doubts (waswās) regarding the intention for prayer, which prevents her from bringing forth the intention neither by heart nor by tongue?
• Is it permissible to combine the Dhuhr and Asr prayers, either by advancing or delaying them, due to compulsory university attendance and the impossibility of praying inside the university given its Christian nature, and which is better: praying Asr at the end of its time or combining it with Dhuhr by advancing it?
• What is the manner of performing prayers, combining and shortening them, while traveling to Qatar for a week with ownership of a house there, and is this considered residency that nullifies the rulings of travel?
• Is it permissible to combine and shorten the 'Asr prayer with the Dhuhr prayer in the city before traveling by plane, knowing that the plane's departure time is before the entry of 'Asr time? What is the ruling on that, and what is the correct action in this situation?
• How are the obligatory and regular Sunnah prayers performed during travel, in the case of shortening and combining prayers?
• Is it permissible for the traveler to combine and shorten the Maghrib and Isha prayers before leaving his city?
• Is it a condition not to have a short break between the two combined prayers (Maghrib and Isha or Dhuhr and Asr), and is there any evidence for the necessity of the immediate succession of the two prayers, i.e., performing the iqama directly between them?
• What is the ruling on listening to shilat in the car, after combining the two prayers with an early combination?
• Is a traveler obligated to perform the Fajr prayer on time, given the option of combining Dhuhr and Asr prayers either by advancing or delaying them, and likewise for Maghrib and Isha?
• Is it permissible for a taxi driver to combine the Dhuhr and Asr prayers, and the Maghrib and Isha prayers, by performing them earlier (jam' taqdim) or later (jam' ta'khir) when necessary, given that he sometimes prays after the time for the prayer has expired?
• Is it permissible for a traveler to shorten or combine prayers if the duration of stay in the destination country ranges from four to five years?
• Is a traveler's Maghrib prayer after 'Isha valid? And what are the conditions for combining prayers while traveling?
• What is the ruling on saying "Amen" after the Abrahamic prayer outside of formal prayer, and is it better to send blessings upon the Prophet (PBUH), or to say "Amen" upon hearing it, or to combine both?
• Should prayers with multiple intentions be written as separate rak'ahs?
• Is it permissible to combine and shorten the Dhuhr and Asr prayers at the time of Asr, when traveling 45 minutes from home and returning on the same day? And for how long is combining permissible?
• How do I deal with colleagues who engage in bribery?
• Must I repeat a prayer if I doubt its performance, especially when combining more than one prayer?