Friday Prayer from the viewpoint of ShahidThani and Vahid Behbahani

In this paper, at first, the importance of Friday Prayer (Salaat-ul-Jumma) in Shiite jurisprudenceis investigated and then two significant treatises about Friday prayer written in Persian and English by Grand Ayatollah Vahid Behbahaniare discussed meeting his views on the Friday prayer as an obligatory with choice at the time of Occultation. The last and fundamental part of the present paper deals with criticismsof Behbahani's reflections on the invalidity of assigning "Friday prayer as an ‘individual duty’ (wajib‘taeenī)" to Shahid Thani (it is well known that Shahid Thani deals with three positions on Friday prayer from which he adopts the one which takes the Friday prayer as an individual duty). The author of this paper by citing to various evidencesacknowledges that assigning this treatise to Shahid Thani is true and confirms that this treatise is Thani's work.