My Employer has provided us 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 tomake 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 to introduce another Jumu'ah prayer. But if there
is no Jumu'ah prayer in the city, then you must establish it andit 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 theJumu'ah prayer in congregation is a condition
of it being valid. There is no shar'i evidence that 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 the committee no. 957:
"With regard to the number required to holdJumu'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 been
stated concerning that is the view that it may be done if there
arethree 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 (interpretation of 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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