What Is the Correct Opinion Regarding Women Attending Jumuʿah Prayer? By Sh. Ibn ʿUthaymīn رَحِمَهُ اللهُ

Sh. Ibn ʿUthaymīn رَحِمَهُ اللهُ said:

“The weightier view is that it is not prescribed as a sunnah for her to attend the Jumuʿah prayer, nor any other prayer except for the ʿĪd prayer, for the Prophet ﷺ commanded women to go out for the ʿĪd prayer. Anything other than that is permitted (مُبَاح) but it is not something desirable.

It is obligatory upon the woman, if she goes out for ʿĪd prayer or other prayers, or for a need in the market, that she goes out without displaying beauty and unperfumed, and that she walks modestly.”

Source: Majmūʿ Fatāwá wa Rasāʾil Faḍīlat al-Shaykh Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, 16: 35, no. 1192.

Marketplace

Upon entering the marketplace, it is recommended for one to read the following supplication [in green]:

On the authority of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb [who narrated] that the Messenger of Allāh, may the praise and protection of Allāh be upon him, said:

“Whoever enters the marketplace and says, ‘There is none worthy of worship except Allāh alone without any partners, to Him belongs the dominion and to Him belongs all praise, He gives life and causes death, He is the All-Living and does not die, in His Hand is all goodness, and He has power over all things’, Allāh will write a million good deeds for him, and wipe a million evil deeds away from him, and raise a million ranks for him.”

Reported by al-Tirmidhī.

Ḥasan: al-Tirmidhī (3428) and in the Dār al-Taʾṣīl edition (3746). Ibn Mājah (2235). Aḥmad (327). See: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Targhīb wa al-Tarhīb (1694) of al-Albānī.