Some of them permitted it, whether it was during the day or night, and some of them prohibited it during the day and permitted it at night, and some of them permitted it in the mud but not in the rain at night. What I have come to is that if the praying person’s doctrine is that prayer is not valid except in congregation and he does not have a congregation except in the mosque, then he combines the two prayers at night. And during the day, if he is in a group, and if his doctrine is that it is permissible to perform the unique prayer in the presence of a group, then it is not permissible for him to combine it, not if he is in the mosque, and the imam gathered according to whatever doctrine that imam was, if the imam was a mujtahid and not an imitator, except that today he imitates that mujtahid in all his instances, as they are upon. In general, jurists in our time