The number required to hold the Friday prayer
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Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. The questioner, Faraj from Eritrea, says: If we are more than twelve people, do we pray the Friday prayer and does one of us give the sermon, or what do we do?
Answer:
If you are settled in a place from which you do not move, then you pray the Friday prayer, whether your number is twelve or fewer or more. The Friday prayer is established with three or more, because there is no evidence specifying a particular number. So if they are three or more, settled in one place, it is obligatory for them to pray the Friday prayer. Yes.
May Allah reward you and bless you. The questioner, Faraj from Eritrea, says: If we are more than twelve people, do we pray the Friday prayer and does one of us give the sermon, or what do we do?
Answer:
If you are settled in a place from which you do not move, then you pray the Friday prayer, whether your number is twelve or fewer or more. The Friday prayer is established with three or more, because there is no evidence specifying a particular number. So if they are three or more, settled in one place, it is obligatory for them to pray the Friday prayer. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6467- العدد الذي تنعقد به الجمعة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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