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غسل الجمعة
Whoever comes to the Friday prayer should bathe first; most scholars hold it a stressed Sunnah.
Ibn 'Umar reports in al-Bukhari that the Prophet ﷺ told whoever comes to the Friday prayer to take a bath.
islamweb's fatwa quotes an-Nawawi: a group of the early scholars, and the Zahiris, held it obligatory, while most scholars held it a recommended Sunnah. They cite 'Umar letting 'Uthman pray without having bathed, and read the word 'obligatory' in the hadith as 'strongly stressed'. Ibn Hazm argued for the first view.
Sahih al-Bukhari 877
| Grader | Verdict |
|---|---|
| al-Bukhari | Sahih (included by al-Bukhari in his Sahih) (Sahih) |
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكٌ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " إِذَا جَاءَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْجُمُعَةَ فَلْيَغْتَسِلْ ".
Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Anyone of you attending the Friday (prayers) should take a bath