Is it permissible to deliver the Friday sermon and perform the obligatory prayer in a mosque that has been completed, or is it necessary to purchase livestock, slaughter it, and feed those gathered before that? And is it true that the imam of the mosque will die before his appointed time if he prays in it without completing this procedure?
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This has no basis, and believing it is pure error. Its perpetrator should be denounced, because it is an innovation (bid'ah), and every innovation is misguidance, as the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever performs a deed that is not in accordance with our matter, it will be rejected."
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