Ruling on performing the Friday prayer in a camp

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, if a group of young people organized a camp and went to the city of Al-Siyar and stayed there for a few days, is it permissible for them to perform the Friday prayer in the same camp?

The Shaykh:
One of the conditions for the validity of the Friday prayer is settlement. It is not performed except in a place of settlement. A camp is not a place of settlement; it is temporary, lasting days or a month, and then it is gone. It is like the dwellings of the Bedouin, like the homes of the Bedouin in the desert. The Bedouin in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would settle and then move on, following the grazing. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not order them to perform the Friday prayer.

The questioner:
The Kawashit in Libya, the nomads, and the workers' housing areas are called that.

The Shaykh:
Yes, the Kanuk are called Kanuk; all of these are temporary, and it is not permissible to perform the Friday prayer in them, because they are not places of settlement. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would travel for Hajj and for expeditions, and he did not perform the Friday prayer during his travels, peace and blessings be upon him. Yes.