Is it permissible to perform prayers when Friday sermon is delivered? Is it not fard to listen to Friday sermon?
Dear Brother / Sister,
A person who enters the mosque when the preacher is delivering the Friday prayer sermon is not allowed to perform any prayers including tahiyyatul-masjid (greeting the mosque) prayer according to Hanafi and Maliki madhhabs. However, according to Shafii and Hanbali madhhabs, he can perform tahiyyatul-masjid prayer by keeping it short.
Therefore, according to Hanafis and Malikis, a person cannot start a prayer after the imam starts the sermon. If the imam has started the sermon when a person enters the mosque on Friday, he needs to listen to the sermon first and perform the first sunnah of the Friday prayer immediately after the fard of the Friday prayer or after the last sunnah.
When the sermon is being delivered, the congregation must listen to it without being busy with anything else. It is makruh tahrimi to speak or to tell someone who is talking to keep silent or to perform a prayer. It is also makruh for those listening to the sermon to look at the right and the left. (al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya, Beirut, 1400, 1, 146, 147).
If a person starts to perform a nafilah prayer before the preacher starts the sermon and if he starts the sermon while that person is in the prayer, that person needs to abandon the prayer if he has not performed prostrations. If he has performed prostrations, he finishes the prayer quickly after finishing the second rak'ah. (al-Qinya / Aburraja)
However, some people who have not performed the morning prayer of that day perform it as qada.
If a person who is sahib at-tartib remembers while preparing to perform Friday prayer that he has not performed the morning prayer of that day, what should he do?
According to Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Abu Yusuf, he does not start Friday prayer but performs the morning prayer that he has missed. If he cannot catch up with Friday prayer, he performs the noon prayer in place of Friday prayer. According to Imam Muhammad, if he thinks he can catch up with Friday prayer, he performs the morning prayer that he has missed first; if he does not think he can catch up with Friday prayer, he performs Friday prayer, skipping the morning prayer. (Sirajul-Wahhaj / Halwani; Celal Yıldırım, Kaynaklarıyla İslam Fıkhı, Uysal Bookstore: 1/414)
Questions on Islam
- A short explanation about Friday prayer and sermon
- Friday Prayer
- Is it makruh to start to perform the sunnah prayer on Friday while the second adhan is being called?
- How can I find out when the haram prayer times are?
- What does the sunnah of the time of two rak’ahs performed after Friday prayer mean? We pray four rak’ahs of the last sunnah after the fard of Friday prayer anyway.
- What is the decree about a person who has not been able to listen to the sermon on Friday? Friday sermon is fard; is it fard for everybody to listen?
- Can the sunnah of the morning prayer be performed after the fard of the morning prayer?
- Is it permissible to perform tahiyyatul-masjid prayer at times of karahah?
- What is the decree on not being able to perform the first sunnah prayers of the afternoon (asr) and night (isha) prayers? Are the sunnahs of these prayers performed after the fard is performed in congregation?
- What is the importance of Friday and what are the deeds of worship to be performed on that day?
