Friday 15/Aug/2025 – 02:21 PM
The Al -Azhar International Center for Electronic Fatwa answered a question to him: What is the ruling on taking children to pray Friday?
The center said on its official page on the social networking site Facebook: Caring for non -adults to the mosque for Friday prayers in order to accustom them to performing the prayer is desirable; It is confined to this if they are special; To create them on the love of the mosque and the witnesses of congregational prayer; Taking care to teach them the etiquette of the mosque gently and mercy, from respecting it and making sure to clean it and not disturb the worshipers.
Is it forbidden to take children for Friday prayers? Al -Azhar for the fatwa answers
He emphasized: It was narrated from our master the Messenger of God ﷺ that he was carrying his grandchildren while he was leading the worshipers in the mosque. [متفق عليه]
And he continued: On the authority of Abdullah bin Shaddad, on the authority of his father, he said: The Messenger of God ﷺ came out to us in one of the dinner prayers while he was pregnant or well, so the Messenger of God advanced ﷺ and put it, then he grew up for prayer, and he prayed and prostrated between my appearances his prayers, a prostration that prolonged it. I appeared in your prayers, prostrating that I appeared until we thought that it had happened or that he was revealed to you.
