Combining Prayers: Valid Reasons
I guess the tricky question is “What is hardship?” What is considered enough in the Sharia? For example: guests are coming to your house and as a host, you are physically able to pray Isha and Maghrib separately, but there is difficulty in doing so because you might make your dress clothes wet when doing wudhu, have to re-do your makeup and may be uncomfortable performing prayer in these clothes. In this case, it is physically possible, but inconvenient. There is a reason for combining, but my question is, what makes a reason “valid”?
Salam brother . It is not the assumption of sahaba but sahaba combine prayer & tell people it was a sunnah. Ibn ‘Abbas combine two prayers together & one person asked abu huraira ra about ibn Abbas action & abu huraira confirmed that prophet saws combine prayer together. In a hadith where ibn Abbas ra saying that prophet saws combine prayer in Medina , without fear & rain , he is trying to tell people that there was not reason but still prophet saws combine prayer , if there was a reason then he would just simply mention it but he ra saying in a hadith prophet saws combine prayer in Medina , without fear & rain otherwise ibn Abbas ra would not mention all three thing because it does make sense otherwise . Thanks Sahih Muslim – 1636 کتاب:کتاب: مسافرو ں کی نماز اور قصر کے احکام باب:حضر (قیام کی حالت )میں دو نمازیں جمع کرنا ARABIC: و حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ الزُّبَيْرِ بْنِ الْخِرِّيتِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ قَالَ خَطَبَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يَوْمًا بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ حَتَّى غَرَبَتْ الشَّمْسُ وَبَدَتْ النُّجُومُ وَجَعَلَ النَّاسُ يَقُولُونَ الصَّلَاةَ الصَّلَاةَ قَالَ فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ لَا يَفْتُرُ وَلَا يَنْثَنِي الصَّلَاةَ الصَّلَاةَ فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ أَتُعَلِّمُنِي بِالسُّنَّةِ لَا أُمَّ لَكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ جَمَعَ بَيْنَ الظُّهْرِ وَالْعَصْرِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَالْعِشَاءِ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ شَقِيقٍ فَحَاكَ فِي صَدْرِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْءٌ فَأَتَيْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَصَدَّقَ مَقَالَتَهُ TRANSLATION: Abdullah b. Shaqiq reported: Ibn ‘Abbas one day addressed us in the afternoon (after the afternoon prayer) till the sun disappeared and the stars appeared, and the people began to say: Prayer, prayer. A person from Banu Tamim came there. He neither slackened nor turned away, but (continued crying): Prayer, prayer. Ibn ‘Abbas said: May you be deprived of your mother, do you teach me Sunnah? And then he said: I saw the Messenger of Allah ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) combining the noon and afternoon prayers and the sunset and ‘Isha’ prayers. ‘Abdullah b. Shaqiq said: Some doubt was created in my mind about it. So I came to Abu Huraira and asked him (about it) and he testified his assertion. http://www.theislam360.com