Jumu'a in villages: the definitions of misr and the permissibility of Jumu'a in a village

Question

I submit a few points concerning the Friday prayer. Undoubtedly, the noble scholars have made a city (misr) or a large village (qarya kabira) a condition for the validity of performing Jumu'a precisely on the basis of strong proofs. However, in the definition of a city or a large village there are such severe differences among the statements of the Hanafi scholars and of our elders, and so many differences in the practice of these elders regarding the performance of Jumu'a, that excluding any village from the…

Answer

This much is unanimously accepted: Jumu'a is not like the five [daily] prayers, which can validly be performed in any manner — in a populated place, in the wilderness, on land, on a train, in a boat, alone, with a congregation, on time (ada') and as make-up (qada'); rather, it has certain special conditions.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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