The Ruling on Speaking While the Imam Is Delivering the Friday Sermon

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: What about one who speaks on Friday while the imam is delivering the sermon, and the speaker is outside the mosque and has not entered it? Does he repeat the prayer, or what does he do?

Answer:
No, he does not repeat the prayer. Even if he were inside the mosque, he would not repeat the prayer. Rather, the warning applies to him: he loses the reward of the Friday prayer. "No Friday" means he loses the reward of the Friday prayer.
It does not mean that his prayer is invalid and that he must repeat it. No, but it means that he loses the reward of the Friday prayer and returns without any reward, like a donkey carrying its own luggage. The donkey carries books but does not benefit from them. Similarly, this person was present but did not benefit from his presence because he spoke while the imam was delivering the sermon.
So if you are present with the imam and intend to pray, do not speak, neither inside the mosque nor outside it. If the mosque is crowded and people pray outside in the courtyards or spread out on the street and pray, they take the ruling of those inside the mosque. As long as they are listening to the sermon, it is not permissible for them to speak. If they speak, they lose the reward of the Friday prayer. Yes.

The presenter:
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