CHAPTER: Shortening The Khutbah.
Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم commanded us to shorten the speeches.
Narrated Jabir ibn Samurah as-Suwa'i: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم would not lengthen the sermon on Friday. He would say a few words.
Narrated Samurah ibn Jundub: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Attend the sermon (on Friday) and sit near the imam, for a man keeps himself away until he will be left behind at the time of entering Paradise though he enters it.