Does Your Jumu'ah Count? The Missing Conditions
Conditions for Receiving the Reward of Jumu'ah Prayer - Chapter 210
Summary
This lecture discusses the 210th chapter of a hadith collection focusing on the virtues of Friday (Jumu'ah) prayer. The speaker explains the distinction between a valid Friday prayer and a rewarding one, emphasizing that while a prayer may be technically valid, it does not guarantee receiving the ultimate reward of Jumu'ah, which is the expiation of sins between one Friday and the next (or the next with an additional three days). The speaker then presents a narration from Salman al-Farisi that outlines specific conditions for receiving this reward, including ritual bathing, using perfume or musk, not disturbing others in the mosque, refraining from unnecessary prayers before the sermon, maintaining silence during the imam's sermon, and praying the required units after Jumu'ah.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Continuing in the 210th chapter, the chapter regarding the virtues of the day of Jum. In the past weeks, we have listened to narrations which discuss the obligatory nature of bathing for the occasion of the day of Jum and bathing specifically for the salah of Jum. These narrations that came before speak about the bare minimum that is required for a person who attends Jym. However, not everyone who attends Jumra receives the ultimate reward of Jym. What is the ultimate reward of Jumra? The ultimate reward of Jym is what is between one Jum and the next of sins is expated. And in another narration, what is between every two J and an in and an addition of three days. So 10 days sins expedated. This is the ultimate reward of Juma. But not everyone that attends Juma receives this reward. Why is that? Because this reward has conditions to it. These conditions have to be met in order for a person to receive this reward. Now many of the people that attend Jum their Ju may be valid. Their J may be valid meaning that they are not required to repeat their J their salah is not invalid. But there is a far cry and a big difference between a Ju that is that is valid and a jum that is rewarding. Just because a person's jum is valid doesn't mean that a person's jum is necessarily rewarding because there are conditions that if a person breaks these conditions or fails to fulfill them this will invalidate the reward of J not necessarily the salah of J. So while their salah is technically still acceptable, it does not mean that their reward is still valid. Their reward can be invalid. The following narrations are going to be discussing the conditions for receiving this reward. Here we have a narration on the authority of Salman known as Salman Pharisee. Salman the Persian because he is from Persia. He's a very long and illustrious story. Many of us have probably heard. However, Salman Pharisee, what is little known about him is that he lived over a 100red years. Many scholars place him at above the 120 year mark. So he lived to be very very old many many years. He lived before Islam and before the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam was a prophet and messenger. And the remainder of his life he lived as a follower of the prophet Muhammad sallall.aii alaihi wasallam and a follower of the he lived through the of all of the and far beyond that narrates he says the messenger of Allah said that no man will bathe on the day of J and then and clean himself as thoroughly as possible. And then put on some kind of perfume or some kind of musk or even if it is only the incense that is used in his home to better set the scent of the home and then go to attend. And in doing so, not part between two people. Not part between two people. Meaning when there's two people sitting next to each other, the person comes and walks between them. Or the person comes and sits in between two people who are already sitting next to each other. This is annoying. This is irritating. It is an annoyance. And so we understand here that it's not just this act but any act that will act any act that will play a part in annoying the other people that are attending and then upon arriving at the masid not dividing or separating between two people and pray what Allah has decreed for him to pray. There is no sunnah before Jym. There is no set sunnah before Jum. Person prays of J whatever they are able to pray. The bare minimum is two as the salutation of the masid. The bare minimum is two upon arriving at the masid. However, if they wanted to continue to pray in units of two all the way until the imam comes and and you know ascends the mimba then that is fine as well. However, there's no set number before jum after jum there is a set number and Muslim the prophet sallall.aii Wasam if he would pray the sunnah of J after in the masid he would pray four raqa so two sets of two and if he were to pray in his home or outside of the masjid then he would pray only two raqa and then the person is silent whenever the imam is speaking. Silence is not just a verbal silence but ceases communication with anyone else. Ceases communication with anyone else. They're not making noise and they're not speaking with anyone else even if only in s with signs. If they are to sign to someone else while the imam is speaking, this is still considered to be breaking a person's silence while the imam is giving the he says if a person does all of these things they will receive the reward of an experation of sin between that and the ja to follow. This narration has been collected by imariham. Alhamdulillah.