Please view the fatwa on saying Jumuah Mubaarak.

Answer

(In a lengthy fatwa of a couple of pages a junior mufti has attempted to validate the bid'ah of saying 'jumuah mubaarak') The Mufti appears to be an amateur, hence he drifts off at a wide tangent writing such a lengthy article for a simple issue.

No one criticizes congratulating a Muslim. What is reprehensible is to introduce a custom and elevate it to the status of near-wujoob (compulsion) and to supersede the Masnoon practice. Saying 'Jumuah Mubaarak' never was the practice of the Sahaabah, yet Jumuah existed among them. Their greeting was restricted to the Masnoon Salaam. If congratulating everyone every Jumuah had any merit, the Sahaabah would have practised it. There is no need to surpass the Sahaabah in displaying 'holiness'. The Sunnah is sufficient for us.

This congratulatory phrase in some places supersedes even the Salaam. The phrase is uttered first. The Mufti has made a mountain out of an anthill in his struggle to validate what has become bid'ah in some quarters.