regarding the issue of greeting the worshippers while the imam is delivering the Friday sermon?
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The questioner : Professor, why don't we say... there is a topic regarding combining the Friday sermon with...
The Shaykh : The previous answer differs; the matter here is obligatory and recommended, whereas there it is obligatory and obligatory. We explicitly stated that an obligatory act does not suffice for another obligatory act. It remains recorded in the water.
The questioner : Returning the greeting on Friday does not conflict...
The Shaykh : It does not conflict. There is no greeting while the preacher is delivering the sermon, and the issue has some precision because it might be said that if it is recommended to greet a worshipper who is engaged in prayer, then it is even more so to greet one who is sitting listening to the sermon. However, something is raised against this, especially in our time, where ignorance of correct Islamic jurisprudence prevails. If a person enters on Friday while the preacher is delivering the sermon and says "Peace be upon you," you will hear greetings returned from here and there, whereas in prayer, even the most ignorant person knows that no speech is allowed. So when one greets the sitters listening to the Friday sermon, it will cause commotion, it will cause disturbance, and it will divert the attendees from paying attention to the sermon and to the matter for which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade saying to the one who is speaking, "Listen," because a single word will divert you from the sermon. Therefore, the ruling differs between the recommendation of greeting the worshipper, because here the greeting is returned by a gesture, which may or may not be done, whereas there they will return it verbally. The problem arises here.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Where is the problem?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Returning the greeting is not more obligatory than enjoining good and forbidding evil. So if enjoining good and forbidding evil is dropped, then that is dropped a fortiori. And were it not for the hadith of Salik al-Ghatafani, I would not have changed the position of my legs. May Allah reward you with good. There is no need were it not for the explicit hadith of Salik al-Ghatafani regarding the command for the one entering the mosque on Friday; otherwise, there would have been no room to claim the legitimacy of the greeting... meaning, the best that can be said about the greeting is that it is like enjoining good. So as long as enjoining good is dropped, the greeting is also dropped. But the text came explicitly regarding Friday, in a clearer phrase in a hadith in the two Sahihs, that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting in the mosque when a man from his Companions, known as Abu Qatadah al-Ansari, the guardian of the Messenger (may Allah have mercy on him), entered. He sat in the circle, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: He said: "No" He said: Then he said: Sahih al-Bukhari 1167 It is a different story... This is the Messenger sitting in the mosque, not standing delivering a sermon. So I repeat and say, were it not for the hadith of Salik al-Ghatafani... we would apply the hadith of Abu Qatadah and use it as evidence specifically regarding the greeting on Friday, because this greeting is like enjoining good. So as long as he said "Listen" to him, then your being occupied with more than the word "Listen" should be considered more of a waste. That is when the hadith of Salik came explicit on the subject, and he established it after he sat, then he directed the address to all the sitters, meaning it is not as it was said: "If Hudhami speaks, believe her *** For the truth is what Hudhami says"
The Shaykh : The previous answer differs; the matter here is obligatory and recommended, whereas there it is obligatory and obligatory. We explicitly stated that an obligatory act does not suffice for another obligatory act. It remains recorded in the water.
The questioner : Returning the greeting on Friday does not conflict...
The Shaykh : It does not conflict. There is no greeting while the preacher is delivering the sermon, and the issue has some precision because it might be said that if it is recommended to greet a worshipper who is engaged in prayer, then it is even more so to greet one who is sitting listening to the sermon. However, something is raised against this, especially in our time, where ignorance of correct Islamic jurisprudence prevails. If a person enters on Friday while the preacher is delivering the sermon and says "Peace be upon you," you will hear greetings returned from here and there, whereas in prayer, even the most ignorant person knows that no speech is allowed. So when one greets the sitters listening to the Friday sermon, it will cause commotion, it will cause disturbance, and it will divert the attendees from paying attention to the sermon and to the matter for which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade saying to the one who is speaking, "Listen," because a single word will divert you from the sermon. Therefore, the ruling differs between the recommendation of greeting the worshipper, because here the greeting is returned by a gesture, which may or may not be done, whereas there they will return it verbally. The problem arises here.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Where is the problem?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Returning the greeting is not more obligatory than enjoining good and forbidding evil. So if enjoining good and forbidding evil is dropped, then that is dropped a fortiori. And were it not for the hadith of Salik al-Ghatafani, I would not have changed the position of my legs. May Allah reward you with good. There is no need were it not for the explicit hadith of Salik al-Ghatafani regarding the command for the one entering the mosque on Friday; otherwise, there would have been no room to claim the legitimacy of the greeting... meaning, the best that can be said about the greeting is that it is like enjoining good. So as long as enjoining good is dropped, the greeting is also dropped. But the text came explicitly regarding Friday, in a clearer phrase in a hadith in the two Sahihs, that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting in the mosque when a man from his Companions, known as Abu Qatadah al-Ansari, the guardian of the Messenger (may Allah have mercy on him), entered. He sat in the circle, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: