Multiple Jumu’a prayers in a settlement made up of many hamlets

Question

There is a settlement, Markham Ant, in Dehradun district; its map is attached to this petition and presented to you. The population of the said settlement according to the census, of all religions, is about four thousand. This population consists of fourteen hamlets (mazra‘a) belonging to the said settlement. On hamlet No. 5, Barolwala, there is a mosque; [there] is a large Muslim population. The imam of the said mosque holds the views of a mubtadi‘ (innovator)

Answer

If this settlement is one, and there is no great gap between the hamlets, and they are not independent settlements, but all together form one population and one settlement, then in its present situation performing Jumu’a in another place is correct according to the Shari‘a, because according to the Hanafis, in a settlement where Jumu’a is valid it is also valid in several…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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