The ruling on the Friday prayer if two are held in two mosques at the same time

The Shaykh : And if they occur at the same time. If they occur at the same time, both are invalid. If they occur at the same time, both are invalid.

The questioner : We are now listening to the northern mosque.

The Shaykh : And the southern one. So, both their imams said Allahu Akbar together, the takbir of a single person, and they prayed. They all prayed the Friday prayer. What do we tell them? Your prayers are all invalid. Your prayers are all invalid, because one did not precede the other to have a distinction. One did not precede the other to have a distinction. And if there is no distinction, each one invalidates the other, like two pieces of evidence when they contradict each other, right? They fall away. Do you know? With two, meaning witnesses testified to such-and-such, and two witnesses testified to the opposite in the same case, all the testimonies are invalid. And according to the position we held to be stronger, what is valid? The earlier one. If you look at the correct position, glory be to Allah, its application is also easy. According to the position we held to be stronger, we say: Which is the first, which of the two mosques is first? He said the northern mosque. We say: The people of the northern mosque, their Friday prayer is valid, and the people of the southern mosque, their Friday prayer is not valid. Is that clear, everyone? Good. But the author’s statement, where he considered precedence by action, meaning by the takbir of entering prayer: if they occur at the same time and both imams said the takbir together, yes, then both prayers are invalid.