Assalamualykum dear all, :) Combining Asr prayer with Jumuah Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was once asked to explain the ruling on this issue, He said: It is not permissible to combine Asr with Jumuah in the cases where it is permissible to combine Zuhr and Asr. If a traveler passes through a town and prays Jumuah with them, it is not permissible for him to combine Asr with it. If rain falls and it becomes permissible to combine Zuhr and Asr because of the rain, it is still not permissible to combine Asr with Jumuah. If a sick person who is allowed to combine prayers attends Jumuah, it is not permissible for him to combine Asr with Jumuah. The evidence for that is the verse in which Allah says (interpretation of the meaning of the Quran) And when you have completed the prayer, remember Allah standing, sitting, or [lying] on your sides. But when you become secure, re-establish [regular] prayer. Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times. (Al-Quran 4:103) Allah has explained these times in general terms in the verse in which He says, Establish prayer at the decline of the sun [from its meridian] until the darkness of the night and [also] the Quran of dawn. Indeed, the recitation of dawn is ever witnessed. (Al- Quran 17:78) The time referred to in this verse – from mid-day until mid-night (the darkness of the night) includes four prayers: Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha. These are mentioned together because there is no interruption between their times; as soon as the time for one of them ends, the time for the next one begins. Fajr prayer is mentioned separately because its time is not connected to either the time of Isha or the time of Zuhr. There was heavy rainfall that caused hardship at the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, but he did not combine Asr with Jumuah at that time. Anas ibn Malik said that the Prophet,peace and blessings be upon him, prayed for rain one day when he was on the minbar (A special place in a mosque. It is used by the Imam to speak to the congregation, to deliver sermons) and he did not descend from the minbar until rain had soaked his beard. Such a thing could not happen except in the case of heavy rain that would have allowed him to combine the prayers, if it were permissible to combine Asr with Jumuah. He (Anas) said: The following Friday, a man came in and said: O Messenger of Allah, our wealth has been drowned and our buildings have been destroyed; pray to Allah to withhold it from us. (Narrated by Bukhari) This implies that water was flowing in the streets, in such a way that it would have allowed them to combine Asr with Jumuah, if this combination were permissible. Jumuah is a separate prayer with its own rulings; it differs from Zuhr in more than twenty rulings. In such a case the two prayers cannot be compared. :)
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:14:35 +0000
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