Narrated Tariq bin Shihab (RA): Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: "The Friday prayer in congregation is an obligatory duty upon every Muslim, with the exception of four: a slave, a woman, a child and a sick person." [Reported by Abu Dawud, who said that Tariq did not hear (any Hadith) from the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم )] . al-Hakim also reported it from the narration of the aforementioned Tariq, who narrated from Abu Musa.