{"id":5525,"date":"2025-10-25T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:38:12","slug":"shortening-the-prayer-during-long-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Shortening the Prayer During Long Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shortening the Prayer During Long Residence<\/h2>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">Question:<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">What is the ruling of shortening prayer if some one intends to travel and reside more than four days?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In the name of Allah, 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 prayer while travelling is permissible and sunnah that is proven in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/revelation\/quran-and-sunnah\/\">the Quran<\/a> and the Sunnah. In the Quran, Almighty Allah says:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>When you travel through the land, it is permissible for you to shorten the prayer&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> (An-Nisa&#8217; 4: 101)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Ya`la ibn Umayyah said: I remarked to `Umar ibn Al-Khattab that Allah had said, \u201cYou may shorten the prayer,\u201d only \u201cif you fear those who are infidels may afflict you\u201d (Al-Qur\u2019an; 4:101), whereas the people were now safe. He replied that he had wondered about the same matter, so he asked God&#8217;s Messenger and received the reply, \u201cIt is an act of charity which God has done to you, so accept His charity.\u201d (Authenticated by Al-Albani)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">If a traveller intends to stay for more than four days he is no longer allowed the concession granted for travellers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">The most correct view of the scholars is that whoever intends to reside more than four days in a place of destination (while in a journey) without the day of arriving and leaving, then he should offer the prayers fully without shortening them. However, some scholars are of the view that a traveller is permitted to shorten the prayer even if he resides for a period more than the above stated one as long as he is a traveller.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Watch this interesting talk with Dr. Muhammad Salah to know more about the ruling of shortening the prayer.\u00a0<\/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\/shortening-the-prayer-during-long-residence\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of shortening the prayer if some one intends to travel and reside more than four days?\u00a0Watch this video to get the answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1859,9,5006,1569,277,4597,374,2382,1052,1575,183,5007,1852,1576,1577,4215,5008,5009,5010,5011],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-ask-about-prayer","tag-featured","tag-fiq-of-salah","tag-how-to-pray","tag-huda-tv","tag-islamqa","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-muslims-how-to-pray","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-recent","tag-rulings-of-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-shortening-prayer","tag-shortening-prayer-for-traveler","tag-shortening-prayer-while-travelling","tag-shortening-prayer-while-travelling-more-than-four-days","tag-shortening-salat-for-traveller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shortening-the-Prayer-While-Intending-to-Reside-for-more-than-Four-Days.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","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=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}