Will I become a musafir if I travel 91 kilometres and come back home once a week?

· 5 Muharram 1435 AH1 min readFatwa 27384English

Question

I am going to work in a hospital that is 91 kilometers away from the family home, and I will stay there for 5 days a week and come back home every week-ends, for a duration of 6 months insha'Allah. The room and food will be kind of offered to me so in my mind my real home is the family house which I've been living for years.

My question is whether I will have to shorten my prayers during the 5 working days when I'm in the hospital, or should I shorten when I get back home on week-ends or I shorten no prayers ? Kindly clarify this issue for my case.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

You will have to make Qasar (shorten your prayers) when you are at your work place and perform full Salah when you return home. [1]

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Ismail Dawoodjee

Student Darul Iftaa
Zambia

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

www.daruliftaa.net

Fatawa Mahmudiyyah, vol.7, pg.479, Darul Iftaa Jami'ah Faruqiyyah [1]

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References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

اقامت نصف شهر حقيقة او حكما لما فى البزازية و غيرها لو دخل الحاج الشام و علم انه لا يخرج الا مع القافلة فى نصف شوال اتم لانه كاناوى الاقامة...بموضع...صالح لها...فيقصر ان نوى فى اقل منه...اى فى نصف الشهر(در المختار ج2 ص 125 سعيد)

حتى يدخل مصره او ينوى الاقامة نصف شهر ببلد او قرية متعلق...اى قصر الى غاية دخول المصر او نية الاقامة فى موضع صالح للمدة المذكورة (البحر ج2 ص 131 سعيد)

Answered by
Ismail Dawoodjee
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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