6714- What is the authenticity of the ḥadīth: Washing on Friday is obligatory upon every muḥtalim? - Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān

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of Friday is obligatory upon every muḥtalim [one who has reached puberty]?

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The ḥadīth is authentic, and its apparent meaning is that the washing of Friday

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is an obligatory duty, and the obligatory is that for which the one who leaves it is punished and the one who does it is rewarded.

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However, it is specified by his saying, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him: whoever performs wuḍūʾ

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on the day of Friday, or the ḥadīth of the Messenger, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, clarifies it: whoever

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performs wuḍūʾ on the day of Friday—whoever performs ghusl on the day of Friday, then the ghusl is better—

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and whoever performs wuḍūʾ on the day of Friday, then by it, and excellent it is; and whoever performs ghusl, then the ghusl

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is better. Meaning that he, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, clarified that the ghusl is better

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than remaining—than limiting oneself to wuḍūʾ. This indicates that

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performing ghusl on the day of Friday is not obligatory, and the meaning of his saying, obligatory

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upon every muḥtalim, is: emphasized; that is, recommended,

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an emphasized Sunnah.