The ruling on a traveler who stays for two weeks regarding prayer and the sermon
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Question:
The questioner says: I am a student of knowledge who works as a teacher at one of the universities in Riyadh. Every year, I visit our relatives in the south. Our duty compels us to call people to Allah the Exalted, so we deliver Friday sermons and hold special lectures and seminars in some villages that need knowledge. Your Eminence the Shaykh, please inform us of the ruling on our presence among our relatives for only two weeks, and then we leave. Are we considered residents, or does our ruling remain that of travelers? This is because, as Your Eminence knows, according to the jurisprudence of the Hanbali school and others, the Friday sermon must be delivered by a resident.
Answer:
One who intends to stay for more than four days in a town or village has the ruling of a resident, according to the majority of scholars. So we pray four rak'ahs. If you intend to stay for two weeks, you pray four rak'ahs. The correct view is that it is permissible for a traveler to deliver the Friday sermon as well, contrary to the Hanbali school, if he is qualified for it and the imam of the mosque presents him because he is qualified for that. There is no harm in that, according to the correct view. You are to be thanked for calling people to Allah and guiding people to good during your stay in your villages. May Allah increase you in good and guidance. Yes.
The questioner says: I am a student of knowledge who works as a teacher at one of the universities in Riyadh. Every year, I visit our relatives in the south. Our duty compels us to call people to Allah the Exalted, so we deliver Friday sermons and hold special lectures and seminars in some villages that need knowledge. Your Eminence the Shaykh, please inform us of the ruling on our presence among our relatives for only two weeks, and then we leave. Are we considered residents, or does our ruling remain that of travelers? This is because, as Your Eminence knows, according to the jurisprudence of the Hanbali school and others, the Friday sermon must be delivered by a resident.
Answer:
One who intends to stay for more than four days in a town or village has the ruling of a resident, according to the majority of scholars. So we pray four rak'ahs. If you intend to stay for two weeks, you pray four rak'ahs. The correct view is that it is permissible for a traveler to deliver the Friday sermon as well, contrary to the Hanbali school, if he is qualified for it and the imam of the mosque presents him because he is qualified for that. There is no harm in that, according to the correct view. You are to be thanked for calling people to Allah and guiding people to good during your stay in your villages. May Allah increase you in good and guidance. Yes.
Source
واجب أهل العلم — islamhouse.com (1:08:19)
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