The Third Answer to the Question: How do you respond to one who says that the Jumu'ah bath is recommended because there is a context that shifts the command to recommendation in the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?

The Shaykh : Then there is a third answer, and it is perhaps the last one, because...

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : So I say: It is reported in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), excuse me, 'Umar understood from the answer of 'Uthman or another that when he said: "It was not until I heard the adhan that I came," and you know that at that time there was no second adhan, and consequently there was no alleged innovation of the pre-Jumu'ah prayer. So it is very reasonable that he heard the adhan and came while 'Umar was on the pulpit. So 'Umar understood from 'Uthman's answer that if... he heard the adhan... then he came without heeding the command of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The hadith ends here.
The scholars answered in defense of 'Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) and to distance the text from the disagreement between 'Umar al-Faruq and 'Uthman Dhu al-Nurayn. They said: His mentioned answer does not mean that 'Uthman had not performed wudu during the day... it does not mean this, and this is indeed an answer that cannot be refuted. And the implication of judging 'Uthman by presumption is that first, such a hadith is not hidden from him. And second, if that were the case, he would not have delayed. Welcome, how are you? Welcome, hello.
The student: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
The student: And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah.

The Shaykh : A narration, but it is not authentic. I don't know, I don't know. This is clear and does not need clarification.

The questioner : It does not need...

The Shaykh : I mean, the disapproval has been explained previously.

The questioner : Yes

The Shaykh : But I did not mention the word wudu.

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : Because he says that wudu is also... he disapproves of what he understood from his leaving off the bath.

The questioner : Yes, that is right.

The Shaykh : And the answer regarding the excuse for 'Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) has been given previously, that it is possible that he had taken a bath before.
And here this opens up before us an issue in which they differed, which is: Is it a condition for the one who wants to perform this obligatory duty, the obligatory Jumu'ah bath, that he prays Jumu'ah with this bath, or not?
I think, and Allah knows best, because the era is far removed, that Ibn Hazm says based on the apparent text of the hadith as if he understands from it that it is recommended to take a bath before Jumu'ah and to pray Jumu'ah with this bath. And most scholars do not make this condition. For this reason, they answered with the previous answer that it is possible that 'Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) took a bath at some time of the day before Jumu'ah, and then something occurred that invalidated his wudu, and he was obligated to renew it, so he did. So 'Umar's answer was based on the apparent meaning of what he heard from him. And the point... is that 'Umar could not have cared about this with such concern, and he directed this speech to a man who is the third caliph, in the presence of people, regarding a recommended matter, a recommended matter. This is the furthest thing possible, especially from whom? From al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with him), for whom some rulings would descend according to his wording, because as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So he was a muhaddath, meaning he was inspired. So I reject with the utmost rejection that it was in the understanding of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab that the Jumu'ah bath is a recommended matter, and then he takes this explicit and severe stance towards 'Uthman's delay in attending, which indicates that he did not take a bath, regardless of whether his indication was actually true or not, as we said earlier. And such a disapproval, if it had occurred between 'Uthman and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, would have been sufficient as a proof. How much more so when it occurred in the presence of witnesses, among whom were the senior Companions. And therefore, there is no room for nullifying what the explicit hadiths stated with the command and explicitly with the obligation, and some of them Yes, that is right. There is no room for denying the explicitness of these hadiths regarding the obligation of the Jumu'ah bath by saying: No, because the answer, as you have known, is number one, two, and three, perhaps... Abu Ahmad...

The questioner : I mean, we can say that the first hadith has an additional ruling compared to the second hadith, which results in...

The Shaykh : And this is what we classified earlier: the mandub, the mustahabb, the sunnah, the wajib. So it is better, without doubt, it is better.