Prelude:
1 - Ab? Hurairah ( - رضي الله عنه -) narrated that the prophet ( - ) said: ‘One of you would raise his Subbah a mile or two away from his home but finds no grass then goes further. When Friday Sal?t is due; he does not attend it, then the second Friday, then the third one till his heart is sealed [from all goodness]’. (1)
This is indeed a severe threat against the one who abandons Friday Sal?t in order to raise his Subbah of sheep or camel, getting far away from the mosque then misses the Sal?t.
The Subbah is the herd of horses, camels or sheep between twenty and thirty, and it is said that it is between ten and forty heads. (2)
2 - Ab? Hurairah ( - رضي الله عنه -) and Ibn ‘Umar ( - رضي الله عنه -) said that they heard the prophet ( - ) say while standing on his pulbit: ‘Either those who abandon attending Friday Sal?t stop doing so, or All?h ( - عز وجل -) will seal their hearts [from all goodness] and then they would become of the Gh?fil?n’. (3)
[The gh?fil?n are those whose hearts know no good].
3 - Ibn Mas‘ud ( - رضي الله عنه -) narrated that the prophet ( - ) addressed those who do not present themselves on Friday Sal?t: ‘I was about to order a man to lead people in Sal?t then burn the houses of those men who do not present themselves on Friday Sal?t’. (4)
(1) Narrated by: Ibn Khuzaimah in his “Sah?h” (vol. 3 / p. 177) (no. 1859), Ibn M?jah in “As-Sunnan” (vol. 1 / p. 357) (no. 1127) and Al-H?kim in “Al-Mustadrak” (vol. 1 / p. 292).
In “At-Targh?b Wat Tarh?b” (vol. 1 / p. 308), Al-Munthir? said: ‘This had?th was narrated by Ibn M?jah through a sound chain of narrators’. Al-Alb?n? considered it to be a good had?th in “Sah?h Al-J?mi‘ As-Sagh?r” (no. 2656).
(2) As Al-Munthiri said.
(3) Narrated by Muslim in his Sah?h under “Kit?bul Jumu‘ah: B?b Al-Tagl?th F?Tarkil Jumu‘ah” (vol. 2 / p. 591) (no. 865), Ad-D?rim? in “As-Sunnan” (vol. 1 pp. 368 - 9) and Al-Baihaq? in “As-Sunnan Al-Kubra” (vol. 3 / p. 171).
(4) Narrated by: Muslim under the title of “Kitabul Masajid Wamawadi‘ As-Sal?t” section “Fadlu Sal?til Jama‘ah Wabayan At-Tashdid Fit Takhalufi ‘Anha” (vol. 1 / =
= ... p. 452) (no. 652), Abdir Razzaq in “Al-Musannaf” (no. 5170), Ibn Kuzaimah in “As-Sah?h” (vol. 3 / p. 174) (no. 1853, 1854), At-Tayalisi in “Al-Musnad” (no. 316), Ahmad in “Al-Musnad” (vol. 1 / no. 402, 422, 449, 461), Al-Khaitb in “At-Tarikh” (vol. 4 / p. 356), Al-Hak?m in “Al-Mustadrak” (vol. 1 / p. 292), Ab? Nu‘aim in “Al-Hilyah” (vol. 7 / pp. 133 - 4), Al-Baihaq? in “As-Sunnan Al-Kubra” (vol. 3 / p. 172) and Al-Marwazi in “Al-Jumu‘ah Wafadluha” (no. 64).