Jumma Prayers - doing tawaaf during the Friday khutbah

Is it permissible to do the farewell tawaaf in the Haram whilst the
imam is delivering the Friday khutbah?.
Praise be to Allaah.
The scholars differed concerning the ruling ondoing tawaaf during
theFriday khutbah, whetherthat is an obligatory tawaaf such as tawaaf
al-ifaadah, the farewell tawaaf and the tawaaf of 'umrah, or it is
mustahabb.
The Maalikis are of the view that it is not allowed, by analogy with
prayer, because theone who is praying behind the imam is not allowed
to pray during the Friday khutbah, except for tahiyyat al-masjid
("greeting the mosque", two rak'ahs performed upon entering the
mosque). That is because it involves ignoring the khateeb and his
khutbah, and tawaaf is like prayer in this regard.
See Mawaahib al-Jaleel (3/78).
The Shaafa'is are of the view that it is permissible to do
tawaafduring the Friday khutbah, and they rejected the analogy with
prayer, because tawaaf does not preventone from listening to
thekhutbah, unlike prayer which is a greater distraction.
See al-Ghurar al-Bahiyyah (2/29) and al-Fataawa al-Fiqhiyyah al-Kubra (1/239).
Shaykh Ibn Jibreen was of the view that tawaaf during the Friday
khutbah is not allowed. He was asked: What is the ruling on residents
and travellers doing tawaaf when the khateeb is delivering thekhutbah
on Friday?
He replied: Once the khateeb begins his khutbah, the worshippers must
listen attentively to the khutbah and stay where they are, and it is
not permissible to busy oneself with something other than that, except
for one who comes in during the khutbah, who may pray two rak'ahs but
he should make them short, whether he is one of thepeople of Makkah or
not. The evidence that it is forbidden to move and speak during the
khutbah is general in meaning, to such an extent that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "If you say to your
companion, 'Listen attentively' when the imam is delivering the
khutbah, then you have engaged in idle speech."Thus he warned against
asking someone to be quiet even though it is done for the right
reason. Based on this, we think that it is not permissible to do
tawaafat all so long as the imam is delivering the Friday khutbah. The
imams of old forbade doing tawaaf during thekhutbah, but the later
imams were more lenient and claimed that they could not prevent those
people who were doing tawaaf and those who gave the reason that they
were travellingand were bidding farewell to the Ka'bah inthis tawaaf,
or who think that tawaaf is superior to listening attentively to the
khutbah. But this is not correct, and we think that they should be
prevented until the Friday prayer is over. With regard to the Eid
khutbah, there is nothing wrong with doing tawaaf during thiskhutbah,
because it is sunnah, and the worshippers are not obliged to stay
until it ends.

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