Question
A person travels from point A to point B, and intends to stay for a week at point B which is not the safar distance from point A. At point B he intends to travel to point C which is at the safar distance from point A. Will he be a Musaafir at point C which is less than safar distance from point B?
Answer
If the initial intention when leaving home (point A) was to go to only point B which is less than safar distance, then the person will not be a musaafir at point B.
If he now, at point B, travels to point C for a day or more while point C is less than the safar distance of 77 km from point B, then this person will still not be a musaafir regardless of point C being the safar distance from point A. This person will be a musaafir on the way back from point C to point A.
However, if at the time of departing from point A, the intention was to travel to point C, but break the journey at point B, then this person will be a musaafir at point B. In fact he will be a musaafir from the moment he reaches the outskirts of his hometown, that is, where the built up area ends. The adjoining vacant land which is for the uses of the community, e.g. graveyard, dump, etc. are also part of the built-up area.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 26 No 04
- PDF page
- 3
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