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Is it permissible to buy and sell during the Friday prayer in the first mosque, and then pray in the second mosque?

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The prohibition of selling during the second call to Friday prayer is an agreed-upon legal ruling, and this prohibition continues until the prayer is over, based on the Almighty's saying: (O YOU WHO HAVE BELIEVED, WHEN [THE FOR] PRAYER IS CALLED ON FRIDAY, THEN PROCEED TO THE REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH AND LEAVE TRADE).

If there are two mosques in the city, one where Friday prayer is held early and another where the prayer is delayed: - If the first mosque is in the commercial district, selling is prohibited upon hearing its adhan, even if the seller will pray in the second mosque. This is to avoid assisting in sin. - However, if the second mosque where the seller will pray is the mosque of his neighborhood and its usual congregation, some scholars have held that selling is permissible until the call to prayer from the mosque where the seller will pray, because the reason for the prohibition is distraction from hastening to the Friday prayer. So, if selling does not distract the seller or the people of his market from the prayer, then there is no harm in it. In summary: Selling is prohibited upon hearing the call from the mosque where the seller and those with him will pray.

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