Those who said: there is no Friday prayer or tashriq except in a major city

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer and the Eid prayers can only take place in a misr jami' (a large town).

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that there is no Jumu'ah, no tashriq, no Eid al-Fitr prayer and no Eid al-Adha prayer except in a misr jami' (a large town) or a great city.

Hajjaj said: I also heard Ata saying the same.

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that Jumu'ah is not obligatory upon those who live in villages. Jumu'ah is obligatory only upon the people of the cities, such as al-Mada'in.

Al-Hasan and Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) said that Jumu'ah takes place only in the cities.

Al-Hasan was asked: "Is Jumu'ah obligatory upon the people of al-Ubullah (1)?" He said: "No." (1) Al-Ubullah was the name of a village situated on the edge of Basra.

Abu Bakr bin Muhammad sent a message to the people of Dhu al-Hulayfah: "Do not hold Jumu'ah there; come to the mosque of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and pray Jumu'ah there."

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Jumu'ah prayer and the Eid prayers take place only in a misr jami' (a large town).

Ibrahim said that the predecessors did not hold Jumu'ah in military camps.

Ibrahim said that the Jumu'ah prayer and the Eid prayers take place only in a misr jami' (a large town).

Mujahid said that Rayy (Tehran) is a city.