The jama`a on the day of Jum`a is a wajib farida, and in the rest of the days [it is] a sunna. One who abandons it out of disdain of it and of the jama`a of the Muslims without a reason (or, illness), then there is no prayer counted for him. Jum`a has been unburdened from nine: from the minor, the senior, the insane, the traveler, the slave, the woman, the sick, the blind, and one who is on the head (i.e. distance) of two parasangs. The prayer of the man in jama`a is superior to the prayer of the man alone by himself by twenty-five degrees in Paradise.