Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) combined the noon prayer with the afternoon prayer and the sunset prayer with the 'Isha' prayer in Madinah without being in a state of danger or rainfall. And in the hadith transmitted by Waki' (the words are):" I said to Ibn 'Abbas (RA): What prompted him to do that? He said: So that his (Prophet's) Ummah should not be put to (unnecessary) hardship." And in the hadith transmitted by Mu'awiyah (the words are):" It was said to Ibn 'Abbas (RA): What did he intend thereby? He said he wanted that his Ummah should not be put to unnecessary hardship."