First Person to Lead the Friday Prayer in Medina

Hazrat Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair requested permission from the Holy Prophet (sa) before the second pledge at Aqabah to lead the Friday prayers in Medina, and he was duly granted permission. Hazrat Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair led the first Friday prayers in the house of Hazrat Sa‘d (ra) bin Khaithamah, in which 12 people of Medina participated and on this occasion, he slaughtered a goat.

Hazrat Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair was the first person in Islam to lead the Friday prayers in Medina. However, there is another narration in which it is mentioned that Hazrat Abu Umamah As‘ad (ra) bin Zurarah was the first to lead the Friday prayer in Medina.

(al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, pp. 87-88, Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990) (al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 1, p. 171, bab Dhikr al- al-Aqabah al-Ula Itha al-Ashara, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990)