Combining the 'Asr prayer with the Friday prayer

The questioner:
Honorable al-Mutaram, the statement is, may Allah protect us, Muhammad Abu Muslim.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
And it is with them.

The Shaykh:
Or that it occurs between him and Allah, or

The questioner:
and he defies Allah in this without erring in the lands, and may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to combine the 'Asr prayer with the Friday prayer, because it is not of the same kind as it, and because this has not been reported from the Salaf or from any of the scholars of knowledge, except for a rare few whose opinion is not considered. So do not combine 'Asr with the Friday prayer. And whoever combines them, he must make it up, because it is not permissible to combine 'Asr with the Friday prayer. Rather, 'Asr is combined with the midday prayer (Zuhr), and the Friday prayer is not the midday prayer. The Friday prayer is an independent category, because it takes the place of the midday prayer. Yes. All right.