Can you combine salah for reasons other than travelling? | Mufti Abu Layth

we have a question can someone combine the prayers if they are not a traveler or so is it permissible to combine prayers especially within the school of Imam Malik for other than traveling the answer is yes absolutely uh there are many reasons that the prayer can be combined uh one of which is traveling obviously illness is another reason somebody can combine the prayers due to illness um whatever that may be and that's each person when it comes to matters of illness they are what Imam refers to as somebody who knows better

about themselves others should not judge them I mean they have the final say if they feel that they're not up to it they're not up to it other than that yes the prayers may also be combined for matters of okay or for what they call matters of the say im who was one of the key students of IM Malik he mentions this um where he expands really or if you like stemming from the Hadith which is

transmitted in AB by inl where he mentions that that the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam he and there's variations to this r that he that the prophet sallallah Ali wasallam combined in other than rain and other than fear and in some it says other than fear or uh travel and there are these Hadith uh in

it in a Hadith as well is asked cuz there's a particular Hadith where is giving a speech and somebody says to him you know you you've made us miss m prayer Salah and he says to him look calm down that um you know I am aware of the rulings of this thing and then he continues his speech he doesn't stop after a while he descends and he prays he combines between the Salah and then he says that I saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam combine um and he mentions this like without these type of reasons of saf or so on and then

he says that he wished or wanted not to let his umah fall into inconvenience and it is based on teachings like this that IM asab one of the legendary students of Imam Malik and a great IM within the maab has given that fatwa which was also the understanding and the maab of the the great who had his own that a person may combine their prayer for reasons of and that may vary to they say as long as as long as he does he shouldn't turn

it into an every single day habit but as long as there are some valid reasons which could be things like I don't know whe work a person is working in such a way that they can't actually it's very highly inconveniencing it could be study could be people ask examinations it could be whatever the reason is travel that you think look I'm going to travel and be there and in between is going to be really difficult for me so these things do allow you to um to combine also um harsh weather things like this as as is mentioned in the Hadith to allow a person to combine so I hope that's been

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