Riyad as-Salihin, 1157

Abu Burdah bin Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

'Abdullah bin 'Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) said to me: "Did you hear your father narrating something from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the special moment during Friday?" I said: "Yes, I heard him report from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): 'It occurs between the time when the Imam sits down (on the pulpit after the first Khutbah) and the time Salat is over."' [Muslim].

وعن أبي بردة بن أبي موسى الأشعري، رضي الله عنه، قال‏:‏ قال عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما‏:‏ أسمعت أباك يحدث عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ، في شأن ساعة الجمعة‏؟‏ قال‏:‏ قلت‏:‏ نعم، سمعته يقول‏:‏ سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ، يقول‏:‏ ‏

‏هي ما بين أن يجلس الإمام إلى أن تقضى الصلاة‏

‏ ‏(‏‏(‏رواه مسلم‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏

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In-Book Reference: Book 8, Hadith 167

Sharh · explanationclick to expand

Guidance from the Hadiths: 1) One of the merits of Friday is that it has a time in which supplications are readily answered. 2) The time in which supplications are readily answered on Friday is short and unspecified so that people would strive and supplicate a lot on this day in hope that their supplication coincides with this hour. Note: The authentic Hadiths on the hour during Friday in which supplications are readily answered indicate that it is the latter part of time after the ‘Asr (afternoon) prayer. The last Hadith cited above says about it: “It extends from the time the Imām sits down till the prayer is over.” The scholars of Hadith considered the attribution of this wording to the Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) as inauthentic; rather, it is the statement of Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him and his father).

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