سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
تفرح أبواب الجمعةPrayer (Tafarah Abwab ul Jummah)
باب التَّحَلُّقِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ قَبْلَ الصَّلاَةِChapter: Gathering Before The Prayer On Friday.
Hadith 1079
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى ، عَنْ ابْنِ عَجْلَانَ ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ " نَهَى عَنِ الشِّرَاءِ وَالْبَيْعِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ ، وَأَنْ تُنْشَدَ فِيهِ ضَالَّةٌ ، وَأَنْ يُنْشَدَ فِيهِ شِعْرٌ ، وَنَهَى عَنِ التَّحَلُّقِ قَبْلَ الصَّلَاةِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ " .
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited buying and selling in the mosque, announcing aloud about a lost thing, the recitation of a poem in it, and prohibited sitting in a circle (in the mosque) on Friday before the prayer.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
1079. Commentary:
Whether it is ordinary worldly conversation or scholarly teaching and instruction, all are prohibited in this gathering. Although teaching and instruction are, from a Shari'ah perspective, recommended acts, they are not correct before the Friday prayer. Instead, one should engage in prayer and the prescribed remembrances (adhkar). Therefore, gathering people in a circle before the prescribed sermon (khutbah) is against the Sunnah. Let alone the case where the very preacher (khatib) himself sits on the pulpit before the prescribed sermon and begins to deliver an admonition or speech under the name of a talk—this is in no way permissible. In this manner, in terms of number, there would also be three sermons, whereas the Sunnah is that there should only be two sermons.
Whether it is ordinary worldly conversation or scholarly teaching and instruction, all are prohibited in this gathering. Although teaching and instruction are, from a Shari'ah perspective, recommended acts, they are not correct before the Friday prayer. Instead, one should engage in prayer and the prescribed remembrances (adhkar). Therefore, gathering people in a circle before the prescribed sermon (khutbah) is against the Sunnah. Let alone the case where the very preacher (khatib) himself sits on the pulpit before the prescribed sermon and begins to deliver an admonition or speech under the name of a talk—this is in no way permissible. In this manner, in terms of number, there would also be three sermons, whereas the Sunnah is that there should only be two sermons.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 1079
