People who pray in congregation on Friday when they did not attend it

Musa bin Muslim said: I was with Ibrahim al-Taymi, Ibrahim al-Nakha'i, Zirr and Salamah bin Kuhayl on a Friday. Zirr and al-Taymi mentioned the Friday, and then they prayed the Friday prayer as four rak'ahs in that very place; they were in hiding out of fear (of the tyrant al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf).

Aflah said: We were at al-Rawha' on a Friday when the muezzin gave the call to prayer. When we arrived, the people had already prayed. Al-Qasim prayed his own prayer and did not pray the Friday prayer.

Al-Hasan said, concerning people who have missed the Friday prayer: They should pray individually, each on his own.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The congregation for the Friday prayer is only with the imam.

Jamil bin Ubayd said: In the days when Iyas bin Mu'awiyah was the judge of Basrah, he came for the Friday prayer and saw that the prayer was already over. He led us in the four rak'ahs of Zuhr.

Al-Hasan bin Ubaydullah said: Zirr and I came to the mosque on Friday and found that the people had already prayed the Friday prayer. So we prayed together.