Ruling on performing the Friday prayer in a temporary camp

Question:
The Shaykh said: If a group of young people go out and set up a camp outside the city of al-Suwaya and stay there for several days, is it permissible for them to perform the Friday prayer in that same camp?

Answer:
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 removed. 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. Therefore, the tents in the desert, the nomads, and the workers' accommodation, which they call the "knobs" (tents), 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, may peace and blessings be upon him.