Question

Can you mention a Hadith on the virtue of performing Jumu’ah Salah?

 

Answer

Hereunder are some Hadiths explaining the virtues of performing Jumu’ah Salah:

 

1) Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) reports that Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “The five daily Salah, and [offering] one Jumu’ah to the next, are an expiation for whatever sins are committed in between, as long as one does not commit any major sin.”

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 233)

 

2) Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) reports that Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Whoever takes a bath (ghusl), then comes for the Jumu’ah Salah and offers whatever is decreed/fixed for him, then keeps silent until the khutbah terminates and then offers Salah with the [Imam], will be forgiven between that time and the next Friday and an additional three days.”

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 857)

 

See a detailed article here on the virtues of Friday as well as the Jumu’ah Salah.

 

Kindly see the following links for the great virtues of proceeding early for Jumu’ah Salah:

  1.  Virtue of going early for Jumu’ah and sitting near the mimbar
  2. Explanation of a Hadith on going early for Jumu’ah
  3. A virtue of arriving early for Jumu’ah

 

And Allah Ta’ala Knows best.

 

Answered by: Moulana Suhail Motala

 

Approved by: Moulana Muhammad Abasoomar

 

Checked by: Moulana Haroon Abasoomar