{"id":14329,"date":"2026-04-14T08:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=14329"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:38:22","slug":"rulings-of-shortening-combining-prayers-while-traveling-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=14329","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Rulings of Shortening &amp; Combining Prayers While Traveling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #993300\"><strong>Shortening &amp; Combining Prayers While Traveling<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #0000ff\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">What are the rulings of shortening prayers while traveling a long distance? Is it permissible to combine prayers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #008000\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In the name of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/islamic-creed\/almighty-allah\/\">Allah<\/a>, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Shortening prayers when travelling is affirmed by the Sunnah of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/prophet-muhammad\/\">the Prophet <\/a>(peace be upon him). The Muslim has the license to shorten and combine the prayers, and this is the opinion of the majority of scholars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Shortening prayer is preferred over offering prayer in full when travelling.\u00a0 Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said, &#8220;We traveled with the Prophet (peace be upon him) from Madinah to Makkah and offered two <em>rak`ahs<\/em> (for every prayer) till we returned to Madinah.&#8221; I said, &#8220;Did you stay for a while in Makkah?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;We stayed in Makkah for ten days.&#8221; (Agreed Upon)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Watch this short video to know more about the rulings of Shortening &amp; Combining Prayers while traveling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/rulings-of-shortening-combining-prayers-while-traveling\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortening &amp; Combining Prayers While Traveling Question: What are the rulings of shortening prayers while traveling a long distance? Is it permissible to combine prayers? Answer: In the name of\u00a0Allah, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}