Is the obligation of the Friday bath like the obligation of the bath for ritual impurity?

Question : If someone were to ask: Is its obligation like the obligation of the bath for ritual impurity, such that if one did not perform it, his prayer would be invalid?

Answer : The answer is no. The answer is that the Companions were nearly in consensus, in the incident of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, that bathing is not a condition for the validity of the prayer, but rather it is obligatory for the prayer and not a condition within it.