What is the ruling on sending blessings upon the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) during the Friday sermon?

The Shaykh : I say that the rulings on sending blessings upon the Messenger vary according to the context. For example, the preacher on Friday narrates a hadith or hadiths, saying, "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said..." or, after saying, "Allah the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an such and such," is it permissible for us to send blessings upon our Prophet while the preacher is delivering the sermon? We say, no. Why? Because his saying (peace be upon him), "If you say to your companion on Friday, while the preacher is delivering the sermon, 'Listen,' you have spoken in vain"—your saying "Listen" is enjoining good. This command is obligatory, but it is dropped while the preacher is delivering the Friday sermon. So, if one sends blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), especially if he is afflicted—do not rush me and do not find fault with my expression—if he is afflicted with love for the hadith of his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he hardly speaks a word without following it with "May Allah send blessings upon him," because Allah says: . The trial may be with good or with evil. So, if Allah tests a person by having him recite many hadiths of the Messenger (peace be upon him) on Friday, and every time the Messenger (peace be upon him) is mentioned, he says, "O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad, (peace and blessings be upon him)," the Friday gathering becomes chaos, and we thereby contradict the wisdom of our Prophet's saying, "If you say 'Listen'... you have spoken in vain." Therefore, it is not up to us to send blessings wherever we want and not send them wherever we want. No, it is as the Exalted said: . So we return, as we said in our previous discussion, to understanding the Shari'ah of our Lord from the Book of our Lord and the hadiths of our Prophet, and applying the practice of the righteous predecessors. Therefore, the righteous predecessors, as is agreed upon among Muslims, had their mu'adhdhin begin the adhan with takbir and end it with tahlil, "La ilaha illa Allah." He would descend, if he wished, after descending, as stated in the authentic hadith: "How much of my prayer shall I make for you?" He said: . He said, "Then I make all of my prayer for you." He said: . And there is something else in the hadith. The point is that after the mu'adhdhin descends from his minaret or his place of adhan, he may send as much blessing as he wishes. But to make it a ritual and create a disagreement among Muslims—no, this is a religious innovation. No, this is a Sunnah, and so on. What sufficed our righteous predecessors suffices us. One of them would call the adhan, and his adhan would end with "La ilaha illa Allah," and he would descend, and no one would say to him, "You recited the Qur'an, or you remembered Allah, or you sent blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." No one had any connection to it at all. But to make sending blessings upon the Messenger a ritual with the adhan, and a very serious ritual—this is for one who loves the Messenger (peace be upon him). As for the one who calls the adhan and does not send blessings upon the Messenger, this is one who hates the Messenger (peace be upon him). Allahu Akbar! What has caused Muslims to fall into this? This is from the evil of innovation in religion. . We know, with great regret, that most people in our country, and in Syria, and elsewhere, consider the one who does not send blessings upon the Messenger after the adhan to be the innovator and the one who hates the Messenger (peace be upon him). The truth, as it is said, is "She threw her disease at me and then fled." The truth is that the one who loves the Messenger (peace be upon him) is the one who follows the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), as the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an: . And from here, the poet said what he said: "... And you will not follow their paths, for the ship does not run on land." And what else did he say?
Al-Halabi : The lover of one he loves is obedient.

The Shaykh : What came before this?
Al-Halabi : You disobey the Messenger...

The Shaykh : You disobey the Divine while you display your love *** This, by your life, is unique in comparison.
If your love were sincere, you would have obeyed him *** The lover of one he loves is obedient.
The lover of one he loves is obedient. The lover of one he loves is obedient, whatever the case. Where is this? This is among people, for example, one who loves a woman, filthy and impure, and so on. He spends in her way every expensive and cheap thing, as they say. But we claim to love the Messenger (peace be upon him). Why do we not restrain the wildness of our souls and stop them at the limits of the Sunnah of our Prophet, to prove completely that we love the Messenger (peace be upon him)? The proof of following is . This is my answer to what you asked. May Allah bless you. That is enough from this; let us listen to someone else.
Al-Halabi : Our Shaykh, on the same topic, al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar mentioned in *Inbah al-Ghamar* that attaching the sending of blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) after the adhan did not occur until the year 812 AH. He said, "The first to innovate it were the Fatimids, who are the Ubaydis, who are well known."

The Shaykh : This is correct and well known; they were in Egypt.
Al-Halabi : Look, for 800 years it was not done, neither in the first century, nor the second, nor the third, by the mu'adhdhins of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and so on. It only came later. Following should be with the first generations...

The Shaykh : This is correct. We ask Allah to inspire us with following.

The questioner : The collective dhikr with a loud voice...

Another questioner : We have the Fajr prayer and the Fajr lesson. We ask permission from our brothers, and it is twelve o'clock. These days are not few. This is an opportunity that You have honored us with, O Shaykh. May Allah honor you and reward you with good for the Ummah of Muhammad.

The Shaykh : May Allah honor you, and welcome...