The ruling on the Friday ghusl

A question about the ruling on the Friday ghusl, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that it is an emphasised sunna recommended for everyone who intends to attend the Friday prayer, and that someone in major impurity who intends both lifting that impurity and the Friday ghusl gains both. ¹

The questioner asked about the ruling on the ghusl, the full ritual bath, on Friday. ¹

The Department answered that the Friday ghusl is an emphasised sunna, citing a hadith reported by Abu Dawud and al-Tirmidhi, who graded it good (hasan), that whoever performs wudu on Friday does well, and whoever performs ghusl, the ghusl is better. ¹ It said that it is recommended for everyone who intends to attend the Friday prayer, even someone not obliged to attend, such as a woman or a boy. ¹ It added that someone in a state of major impurity who intends by one bath both to lift the impurity and to perform the Friday ghusl gains both, while intending only one of them gains only that one. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4072, dated 21 January 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.