Friday prayer essentials
Who must attend, arriving late, the sermon, and missing it altogether.
Every week brings the same handful of questions about the Friday prayer. Who it is required of, what to do when you arrive during the sermon, and what replaces it when it is missed. This set answers them in order.
Each entry is a short summary of a full answer on Ftawy, with the link to that answer at the bottom. The set routes you to them; it does not rule on anything itself.
SeasonFriday
In this collection
- What is the evidence that permanent settlement is a condition for the validity of Jumu'ah (Friday prayer), and why is Jumu'ah prayer not obligatory for residents who are not independently settled, and why is it not valid if performed by them, even though a resident is not a traveler and not from the Bedouin?
- Is Friday Prayer and congregational prayer obligatory for one who cannot hear the the Adhan in his city due to the mosque's distance?
- Is Friday prayer obligatory for workers in a foreign company in the desert, working on a system of 6 weeks on and 2 weeks off, given the presence of a nearby national company with a mosque and an imam who perform Friday prayers?
- Is Friday Prayer obligatory for someone who works in roof construction in Moscow, faces objections from colleagues and time constraints, and is sometimes detained by the police for document verification?
- Is the Friday Prayer valid for someone who only caught the prayer but not the sermon, or must he pray Dhuhr?
- What is the validity of the saying that whoever catches the second رک'ah of Friday prayer must complete it as four رک'ahs, on the grounds of not having heard the sermon, which takes the place of two رک'ahs?
- How can one make up the Friday prayer for one who missed part of it, whether the sermon, the first raka'ah, or both raka'ahs, and only caught the tashahhud?
- What is the ruling on praying in a mosque where there is doubt about the presence of a grave based on the statements of others, and is it a condition to say "A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytanir-rajim" (I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan) and "Bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim" (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful) before reciting a Quranic verse in the Friday sermon to fulfill the condition of recitation, and is it obligatory to repeat the Friday prayer as Dhuhr (noon prayer) for one who did not attend the first khutbah (sermon)?
- Is it permissible to recite the Qunūt supplication during the Friday sermon outside of Ramadan or times of calamity?
- Is it permissible for the Friday Khateeb to formulate the Friday sermon in a way that he asks the worshippers and they answer, and is this method considered legitimate for attracting attention, and will the worshippers' answers not be considered a distraction?
Updated Sep 5, 2026