The first Friday prayer
أول جمعة في بني سالم بن عوف
24 September 622 CE · 12 Rabi' I 1 AH
On the Friday of his entry into Medina, prayer time overtook the Prophet among Banu Salim ibn Awf, and he led a congregation of a hundred men in the mosque in the valley bottom — counted in the sira as the first Jumu'a.
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- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
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Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
The first Friday prayer the Prophet prayed with the Muslims, on the well-known account: among Banu Salim ibn Awf, in the mosque in the belly of the valley — a hundred men 1.
What happened
On the fifth day after his halting at Quba — a Friday — the Prophet mounted with Abu Bakr riding behind him and sent word to Banu al-Najjar, his maternal kin, who came wearing their swords; he set out toward the city 1.
Friday prayer-time caught up with him among Banu Salim ibn Awf, so he held the congregational prayer with them in the mosque in the belly of the valley — a hundred men 1 2. After the Friday prayer he entered the city, and from that day Yathrib was called the City of the Messenger 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Medina
- Part of
- The Hijra
- Had participant
- MuhammadAbu Bakr al-SiddiqBanu Salim ibn Awf
People and things also explored
The HijraAisha bint Abi BakrUmar ibn al-KhattabMedinaThe sojourn at QubaAbu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illnessAbu Sufyan's mission to MedinaThe affair of the Badr prisoners
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p. 172
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “The first Friday prayer”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/first-jumma/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.