Q: Is it permissible to join the salaahs when a person undertakes a journey and is a musafir?
Example, you are leaving a country and it is zuhr time so before the flight you join Zuhr and asr? Or you visited a country and you go to a shop and maghrib time sets in so you read maghrib and Isha together? Is this permissible and if not, does one get a sin when they do it?
A: According to the Hanafi mazhab, joining salaahs in the manner you have explained is not permissible. This is regarded as a major sin in Islam.
In the Qur'aan Majeed, Allah Ta'ala says "Salaah is enjoined upon the believers at their fixed (appointed) times." (Surah Nisaa v. 103)
However, according to the Hanafi mazhab, when travelling, it is permissible for one to perform the zuhr salaah in the last time, and thereafter when the asr salaah time sets in, for one to perform the asr salaah in its first time.
Similarly, it is permissible to perform the maghrib salaah in its last time and the esha salaah in the beginning of its time.
Joining these salaahs in this manner while traveling is permissible.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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