If Khutba has started in Juma should we not perform our Sunnat prayers.
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If
Khutba has started in Juma (not the Arabic text, but just a sermon in the local
language of the country), should we not perform our Sunnat prayers, or is it ok
to do so?
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Answer:
Sunnah prayer before jumua friday
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Question: If
Khutba has started in Juma (not the Arabic text, but just a sermon in the local
language of the country), should we not perform our Sunnat prayers, or is it ok
to do so?
To the best of our knowledge there is no evidence in the
authentic and established Sunnah, that the Messenger of Allah (saws) offered
any voluntary prayers either in his house or in his masjid before he (saws)
delivered the Jumua Khutba or sermon; thus there is consensus amongst the
jurists that there is no obligation for one to offer any ‘Sunnah’ prayers
before the sermon on Fridays, but one may pray as many ‘nafl’ supererogatory
prayers as one wishes after the ‘adhaan’ and before the start of the sermon.
Al-Muwatta Hadith
9.60
Yahya related from
Malik, from Amir ibn Abdullah ibn
az-Zubayr, from Amr ibn
Sulaymaz-Zuraqi, from Abu
Qatadaal-Ansari that the Messenger of Allah (saws) said, "Whenever you
enter the masjid, you should pray two
rakahs before you sit down."
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 2.52 Narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah
A person entered
the mosque (and sat down) while the Prophet (saws) was delivering the Khutba on
a Friday. The Prophet said to him,
"Have you prayed?" The man
replied in the negative. The Prophet
(saws) said, "Get up and pray two Rakat."
The Messenger of Allah (saws) guided the believers that
whenever they enter any masjid they should offer a two-rakah ‘nafl’ prayer
before they sit down. Thus if for any
reason one happens to enter the masjid late on Fridays and finds the Imam
already delivering the sermon, one should offer a short two-rakah ‘nafl’ prayer
before he sits down to listen to the balance sermon. This two-rakah prayer offered when one enters
any masjid is known in jurisprudence as ‘tahiyatul-masjid’ prayers.
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Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan