Q & A. Missing The Jummah Khutba

Author: 
Shaykh Salim Ghisa

Q. If someone misses the Khutba, but makes the Jama'ah, is the Jummah prayer still valid or should the person then pray Dhuhr to make up?

A. In the name of Allah the Most Beneficent and Merciful.

The Khutba is an obligation for the Jummah prayer to be valid. However, it is not an obligation for the person attending Jummah to have taken part in the Khutba.

However, it has been stated in the Hadith that the Angels close their attendees register once the Imam starts the Khutba and they listen attentively to the Khutba. It is necessary for a person to listen attentively to the Khutba and if he has not already started the Sunnah prayers, he should not do so if the Khutba has been started. Even though this is the case, if a person attended Jummah prayer and missed the Khutba but joined the congregation then his Jummah prayer will be valid and he needs not pray the Dhuhr prayer as long as all the conditions of Jummah have been met.

Of course Allah knows best.

Comments

Why prophet Mohammad (pbuh) had only one Jumma Khutba (A sermon given by the Prophet Muhammad, on the last Friday of Shaban)? Where is the written proof of other Jumma khutba's by Mohammad (pbuh)? If He had only one khutba meaning that other jumma namaz were without khutba? Can someone make note on these questions?

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Why prophet Mohammad (pbuh) had only one Jumma Khutba (A sermon given by the Prophet Muhammad, on the last Friday of Shaban)? Where is the written proof of other Jumma khutba's by Mohammad (pbuh)? If He had only one khutba meaning that other jumma namaz were without khutba? Can someone make note on these questions?

I don't understand this question, what do you mean the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam (Peace and Blessings be upon him) only had one khutba?

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