The Conditions of Jumu‘a and Eid in Detail

Question

In the villages of the eastern districts of U.P. (Uttar Pradesh), the Jumu‘a prayer has been held since olden times without distinguishing between a small and a large village (qarya saghira and qarya kabira), even though the Muslim population there generally follows the Hanafi school. For some time, when the learned class came to realise that in the Hanafi school there are certain conditions for Jumu‘a, and that where these conditions are absent Jumu‘a is not permissible, the learned class — and, following them,…

Answer

This much is clear and accepted: according to the Hanafis, Jumu‘a is not valid in a small village (qarya saghira); rather, on Friday, as on every other day, the Zuhr prayer is fard, and performing Jumu‘a in such a place will not discharge the obligation of Zuhr. The prayer they perform thinking it to be Jumu‘a will be nafl.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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