What is the minimum number required for Jumu'ah and congregational prayer?

Question:
If two people pray together, do they obtain the reward of congregation?

Answer:
If they miss the congregation, yes, but they must not lag behind the mosque. However, if they are sick, or if the minimum number for congregation is two, that is the case.
Q: In a case like this, if they are settled residents and independent, is it obligatory for two or three of them to perform Jumu'ah prayer?
A: Jumu'ah has another condition. If they are settled in villages, Jumu'ah is obligatory upon them according to the correct view, even if they are three or more: the khatib and two ma'mums.
Q: If a masbuq is found in the prayer, is it valid to make him the imam?
A: There is no harm, there is no harm, if he is more proficient in recitation than the other.
Q: And he is a masbuq.
A: Even if he is, make him the imam for him; when he says the taslim, he makes up what he missed.
Q: Some scholars say that congregation is not considered valid unless their number is twelve, and some say forty.
A: There is scholarly disagreement on this, and the correct view is that three are sufficient. Three or more is the minimum for the gathering.