scholars held even if these three took place each in a different year; this heart will be sealed after the third time.
Ibn Abb?s’s Athar is a hard evidence for those who held that the three times should be successive ones.
It is of All?h’s ( - عز وجل -) mercy to give his bondman three chances so one could repent and go back again to the straight path and attend the Jumu‘ah Sal?t and never abandon it but for Shar‘ excuse.
The third had?th indicates that those who abandon the Jumu‘ah Sal?t without having any Shar‘ excuse have indeed commited a great sin for which they deserve a severe punishment.
Some scholars -such as M?lik, Ahmad and Ash’-Sh?fi‘? in the latest of his opinions- held that those who abandon the Jumu‘ah Sal?t without any Shar‘ excuse -such as football players and their cheerers- may not perform Thuhr Sal?t before the Im?m performs his Sal?t; they should haste to catch even a part of it with the Im?m for it is an obligation on them. In case they missed it, they should perform Thuhr Sal?t after the Im?m finishes his (1) . Ibn Mas‘?d’s Athar supports this view. He ( - ) said: “Whoever misses the two Rak‘ahs [of Jumu‘ah Sal?t] should perform four Rak‘ahs instead”. (2)
(1) See: “Ad-D?nul Kh?lis” (vol. 4 / p. 294).
(2) Narrated by: Ibn Ab? Shaibah in “Al-Musannaf” (vol. 1 / p. 126) and At-Tabar?n? in “Al-Kab?r”. The had?th is Hasan [sound], as is mentioned in “Al-Majama‘” (vol. 2 / p. 192). There is another supporting narration in Ibn Ab? Shaibah’s “Musannaf” (vol. 1 / p. 206) through an authentic chain of narrators traced back to Abdir Rahm?n Ibn Ab? Thu’aib who said: ‘I once accompanied Az-Zubair in a travel on Friday, he performed the Friday Sal?t four Rak‘ahs’.
Al-Hassan’s opinion supports this. He held that a woman who attends the mosque on Friday should follow the Im?m in his Sal?t and it will suffice her. It is also related that he said: ‘Women used to perform the Jumu‘ah Sal?t with the prophet ( - ) and were ordered not to go out [of their homes] with perfume applied’. This chain of narrators is authentic.
Another narration related by Al Ash‘ath traced back to Al-Hasan to have said: ‘Women amongst the Muh?jir?n used to perform Jumu‘ah Sal?t with All?h’s ( - عز وجل -) messenger instead of performing Thuhr Sal?t’. ... =
= ... In “Subulus Sal?m” (vol. 2 / p. 74), As-San‘?n? stated that ‘if one misses the Jumu‘ah Sal?t, one should perform Thuhr Sal?t instead as All ‘Ulamah agreed’. Then he said: ‘I dealt with this issue in more details in a separate treatise’. See also: “Al-Ajwibah An-N?fi‘ah” (pp. 47 - 8), “Al-Maw‘ithahl Hasanah” (pp. 17 - 8), “Mas?’il Ibn H?ni‘” for Im?m Ahmad (no. 441 and no. 462), “Tam?mul Minnah” (p. 40) and “Al-Fat?w?” by Abdil ‘Aziz Ibn B?z (vol. 1 / p. 67).