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My Employer has providedus with a small prayer room at work. We have
about 4 or 5 brothers who pretty much regularly pray Zuhur and Asr in
this room. Is it permissible to make Friday prayers in this room?
Considering that every alternate Friday is off for us and nobody makes
a prayer in that room on such Fridays.
Praise be to Allaah.
If in the city where you live there is a mosque in which Jumu'ah
prayers are held, then you must pray with them, and it is not
permissible for you tointroduce another Jumu'ah prayer. But if there
is no Jumu'ah prayer in the city, then you must establish it and it is
not permissible for you to pray Zuhr instead, because "Establishing
Jumu'ah prayer in their towns and villages is obligatory upon the
Muslims and offering the Jumu'ah prayer in congregation is a condition
of it being valid.There is no shar'i evidencethat stipulates a certain
number being required for it to be valid. In order for it to be valid
it is sufficient for there to be three or more. It is not permissible
for one on whom Jumu'ah is obligatory to pray Zuhr instead on the
grounds that the number is less than forty, according to the most
correct scholarly opinion."
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah, no. 1794 (8/178).
It says in the fatwa of thecommittee no. 957:
"With regard to the number required to hold Jumu'ah prayers, we do
not know of any text which stipulates a specific number. Because there
is no text which stipulates a specific number, the scholars differed
concerning the number required. Among the opinions which have
beenstated concerning that is the view that it may be done if there
are three men who are local residents. This was reported from Imam
Ahmad, and was the view favoured by al-Awzaa'i and Shaykh Taqiy
al-Deen Ibn Taymiyah, because Allaah says (interpretationof the
meaning): 'come to the remembrance of Allaah [Jumu'ah religious talk
(Khutbah) and Salaah (prayer)]' [al-Jumu'ah 62:9] – the verbal form
used is plural, which implies a minimum of three." (8/210).
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