Combining Prayers
The hadith is clear that there was some kind of an unnecessary hardship that’s not related by the narrator. The decision of prophet SAW to combine prayers was right in line with the Quranic principle that God doesn’t intend any undue hardship for people in the matters of ibada. One thing to keep in mind when reading ahadith is that most of the time the context is missing. That’s the reason why all hadith have to be understood in the context of the Quran.