The Rulings of Jumuʿah
Introduction
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The Rulings of Jumuʿah

After forwarding the booklet al-Ajwibah al-Nāfiʿah for printing, I came across the work al-Mawʿiẓah al-Ḥasanah bimā Yukhtab fī Shuhūr al-Sanah (The Good Counsel Concerning What Is Preached in the Months of the Year) by the meticulous scholar Abū al-Ṭayyib Siddīq Ḥasan Khān. In it I found a dedicated section on the Friday prayer, pp. 7–35, in which—by his own description—he addresses “the principal issues that are firmly established by the purified Sunnah and whose proofs are sound.”

Most of these issues are precisely those he had already investigated in his other book, al-Rawḍah al-Nadiyyah (The Fragrant Garden); indeed, on occasion he reproduces certain discussions from it verbatim. I therefore decided to summarize the bulk of those points and append them to this epistle, in view of the rigorous analysis and careful precision for which the author—may Allah have mercy on him—was renowned. And it was necessary to