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Does the Friday prayer have one adhan or two, and if there are two, are there rak'ahs that a person prays between them or not?

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Question:
Does the Friday prayer have one adhan or two? And if there are two, are there rak'ahs that a person prays between them or not? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
First, to complete the previous answer regarding the clarification you provided. Ha. The times of response that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) indicated to us, and, praise be to Allah, it is clear, for example, in the middle of the night, and in the last third of the night, and after the prayers, and supplication in prostration, and also in the last hour of Friday, and on the Night of Decree, all these are times of response, praise be to Allah, and if they recur in the life of the Muslim and pass by him, he should seize them. Yes.
As for the adhan on Friday, the adhan that was reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is the adhan when the preacher enters, when the preacher sits on the pulpit, so this is the adhan that was in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and it is an announcement of the entry of the time.
As for the first adhan, this was only ordered by 'Uthman ibn 'Affan, the third of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, may Allah be pleased with them, and he ordered it for a benefit, which is that when the people increased in Madinah and buying and selling increased, and the people began to be late in attending the Friday prayer because they did not feel the entry of the time, he, may Allah be pleased with him, saw that he should alert the people to attend, so he ordered the first adhan, and a man would call the adhan on the minaret, and he was from Madinah, so that the people would be alerted to the Friday prayer and leave worldly works and head to the Friday prayer, and did the Caliph 'Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, do this in the presence of the Companions, the Helpers and the Ansar, and their consensus on it and their not opposing it? And.
Also, it is the action of a Caliph from the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and the action of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered to follow them, he said (peace and blessings be upon him)
Hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs after me, cling to them and bite into them with your molars, and beware of newly invented matters.عليكم بسنتي سنه الخلفاء الراشدين المهديين من بعدي تمسكوا بها وعضوا عليها بالنوازل واياكم ومحدثات الامور
But some people delay, or in some countries they delay the first adhan and do not put between it and the second except a few seven minutes, and this is not prescribed, and it does not achieve the purpose for which 'Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, ordered the first adhan, it should be that there is a duration between them, such that the people are able after the first adhan to prepare and go to the mosque, as for combining two adhans in a close time, this removes the benefit of the first adhan, and it becomes of no value, and it becomes a repeated adhan. It has no value, and this conflicts with the purpose that 'Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, intended.
And there is no prayer between them in this case, if the two adhans are close, there is no special prayer between them, but if you come to the first adhan in its early time, then whoever attends the mosque, he prays, and if he wants to pray and continue with the prayer until the imam comes out, this is better, and if he wants to pray what is easy for him and sit and read the Qur'an or remember Allah until the imam attends, there is no harm in that. Yes. May Allah reward you with good.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل للجمعة أذان واحد أم اثنين وإن كان هناك أذانين فهل بينهما ركعات يصليها الإنسان أو لا؟الشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com

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