Jummah questions

[ILuvMuhammadSAW]

Salam

1: Does Jummah Replace Dhuhr, my sunni friend told me this when i was Sunni but idk if it applies to Shia Islam, especially because i dont pray with the sunnis i just pray on my own a couple meters back from them. 2: Can i combine Asr With Jummah like we do with other prayers like Asr with Dhuhr and Maghrib with Isha, 3: Do i have to pray in congregation for it to count as a Jummah prayer

Edited December 5, 2025 by ILuvMuhammadSAW

[Abu Hassanain]

1 hour ago, ILuvMuhammadSAW said:

Salam

1: Does Jummah Replace Dhuhr, my sunni friend told me this when i was Sunni but idk if it applies to Shia Islam, especially because i dont pray with the sunnis i just pray on my own a couple meters back from them. 2: Can i combine Asr With Jummah like we do with other prayers like Asr with Dhuhr and Maghrib with Isha, 3: Do i have to pray in congregation for it to count as a Jummah prayer

Salam

1. When the conditions are met for a valid Jummah it replaces Dhur

a. The conditions are that a person is past puberty sane, a man, not  blind is sick, not traveling , if one wants to take the narrations literally not living more than 6.7 miles from the masjid the most jurist don’t apply this to areas that don’t have a lot of masjid like the West, not a slave and that there should be five, including a prayer leader and a prayer leader or seven including a prayer leader, that the prayer leader should be just be able to recite the Arabic well enough for an Arab to understand what he’s saying, or trying to say, and he should have permission from the supreme religious authority. I addressed to lead the Friday prayers the level of justice in the permission for leading is more intense than regular congregational Salah 

b. There is an interesting discussion in your students since the Friday. Prayers are recommended for a woman could it ever replace the noon prayers very futurist have discussed it, but a few are discussing it now we had a lengthy series of discussion about this here 

2. There is a narration from imam Sadiq as saying “ Hasten your asr on Friday, pray it immediately after dhur” “ I do not like for men to separate his noon prayers on Friday” so generally not only can you it is taken as precaution or an obligation, or a strong recommendation depending on your jurist 

3. Yes, you cannot pray the Friday prayer alone. If you are alone, you must pray the two noon prayers
 

a. For 14 years due to many reasons, I have hosted the Friday prayers, as when I lived in areas or a few attended are now in an isolated area, where none attent I would simply do the two sermons followed by dhur and asr and there are some centers if they’re too close to another center, they do something like that some do the afternoon prayers followed by dua nudba because they followed a juris to consider the Friday Parayers disliked  etc 

wallahu Alam 

[Abu Hassanain]

Salam

good article with references in plain English 

https://en.wikishia.net/view/Friday_Prayer

[Abu Hassanain]

Salam 

some rulings

https://www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2210/
 

https://fridaybulletin.co.uk/rulings-of-friday-prayer/
 

https://shiawaves.com/english/uncategorized/116476-grand-ayatollah-shirazi-no-ijtihad-required-for-friday-prayer-leadership/