Is It Permissible to Pray Multiple Friday Prayers in the Same City?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

Is it permissible to pray multiple Friday prayers in the same city?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

May Allah bless you for your question

Performing Jumu‘a in multiple places in the same city is permissible. [Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-Falah]

Allahu A‘lam

[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.