Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
What is the ruling of the Hanafi Mathab on Jahm Salaah?. I have read that in the Hanafi mathab it is only allowed during Haj (Everyday Fiqh p 216) and not otherwise. We sometimes go with our Tariqa group on outings to the country (more than 100 km), where nearly all of them are Shafies. We make salaah in Jamaat and they make Qasr salaah with Jahm sometimes (They combine Thur+Asr in the Thur waqt). The reason they do this sometimes is that the nature of the journey and outing usually results in us returning home during the Asr waqt where we can’t stop to make Asr salaah. Must I repeat the Asr salaah at home?, or since I followed an Imam, is there no repetition of any Salaah.If this situation arises again, should I just make Thur (Qasr) salaah with the Jamaah and then break from the Jamaah if they make Jahm salaah?
Walaikum assalam,
Well, in the Hanafi school you cannot combine prayers at all, except in Hajj at Arafa and Muzdalifa. However, al-Haskafi and Ibn Abidin mention, it is not wrong to follow another school’s opinion when there is genuine need, as long as one fulfills all the conditions and requirements for the action’s validity according to the other school.
Therefore, it would be possible for a Hanafi to combine their prayers, as long as his tahara and prayer are valid according to the school they are following on the point, such as the Shafi`is. It would be best, if you need to follow this dispensation regularly, to study the absolute basics of the Shafi`i fiqh of tahara and prayer with someone who knows it well… Or check out Sheikh Nuh Keller’s translation of Imam Nawawi’s al-Maqasid.
And Allah knows best
Wassalam,
Faraz