delivered- as Laghw which lexically means: idle and useless speech.
He ( - ) also used the same word to describe useless movement, as stated in the following had?th. He ( - ) said: ‘Whoever messes with pebbles has indeed committed Laghw’ (1) for such an act diverts one’s attention from being fully given to the Khutbah, and so is the case with messing with the rosary, keys ... etc.
[11/ 58] Tresspassing people’s rows:
The aforementioned Salm?n’s had?th sets several preconditions for gaining the great reward of Jumu‘ah Sal?t, i.e. forgiveness of sins committed between the present and the following Jumu‘ah.
Some of these preconditions are: ‘ ... then one attends the mosque early and separates not between any two muslims’. (2)
Ab? Sa‘?d’s narration states other two preconditions: ‘ ... then commits no Laghw nor any act of ignorance till the Im?m finishes the Sal?t’. (3) Ibn Khuzaimah used this precondition as a title for one of the chapters in his “Sah?h”.
Acts of ignorance are of many types, the following are some of which:
First: separating between any two muslims by sitting between them or in the place of one of them.
Second: tresspassing other muslims by raising one’s foot to the level of their shoulders or even heads and some times his legs cling with their clothes accordingly.
(1) Narrated by: Muslim in his “Sah?h” (vol. 2 / p. 588), Ab? D?w?d in his “Sunnan” (no. 1050), At-Trimith? in “Al-J?m?‘” (no. 498), Ibn M?jah in his “Sunnan” (no. 1025) and (1090), Ahmad in his “Musnad” (vol. 2 / p. 424) and Ibn Khuzaimah in his “Sah?h” (no. 1818).
(2) The narrations of this had?th were previously mentioned.
(3) Narrated by: Ibn Khuzaimah in his “Sah?h” (no. 1817) and Ahmad in “Al-Musnad” (vol. 3 / p. 39). The had?th is authentic.