Khutwa خطوة
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Walk to Jumu'ah Every step, a year of reward. in shā' Allāh

That is the promise of an authentic hadith about walking to the Friday prayer. Khutwa turns it into a weekly practice: a step counter for your walk to the mosque, a reminder that tells you when to leave for Jumu'ah, and everything kept on your phone.

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The Khutwa walk screen: 1,046 steps so far, a glowing route traced across a dark map from Home to Masjid Al-Noor, arriving nineteen minutes early, in shā' Allāh.
The Khutwa Today screen: a ring around the leave-by time, 12:55, with the khutbah at 1:30 at Masjid Al-Noor, a 1.2 km walk of about fifteen minutes, and a Start my walk button.

The hadith

It is in Sunan Abī Dāwūd, and most of us have never heard it.

مَنْ غَسَّلَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَاغْتَسَلَ ثُمَّ بَكَّرَ وَابْتَكَرَ وَمَشَى وَلَمْ يَرْكَبْ وَدَنَا مِنَ الإِمَامِ فَاسْتَمَعَ وَلَمْ يَلْغُ كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ عَمَلُ سَنَةٍ أَجْرُ صِيَامِهَا وَقِيَامِهَا

Whoever performs ghusl on Friday, and bathes completely, and goes early, arriving early, walks and does not ride, draws near to the imam, listens, and does not engage in idle talk — for every step he takes, the reward of a year of fasting and standing in prayer.

Sunan Abī Dāwūd 345 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī)Narrated by Aws ibn Aws al-Thaqafī

The same wording is in Sunan Ibn Mājah 1087, and a close one in Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 496.

The app's name is the hadith's own word: khutwa, خطوة, a step. The promise is tied to all of its conditions together, and Khutwa keeps them together too. It never prints a total of years. That number is with Allah, in shā' Allāh, not in an app.

Read it on sunnah.com

The seven conditions

Seven things, kept together.

The hadith names its promise for these acts taken together, not for any one of them on its own. That is why Khutwa carries a gentle checklist beside the step count, and never a score.

  1. Ghusl

    A full bath before setting out.

  2. Going early

    Ahead of the crowd.

  3. From the very start

    Catching the khutbah from its first words.

  4. Walking, not riding

    The whole way, riding only for a real excuse.

  5. Drawing near

    Sitting close to the imam.

  6. Listening

    Attentively, from beginning to end.

  7. No idle talk

    Keeping clear of what does not belong there.

The three classical readings of the word ghusl, the scholars' commentary on each clause, and the ruling on the walk home are all in the app's Learn tab, with their sources.

How it works

Three things, every Friday.

  1. Today: the leave-by time inside a ring, with the distance and walking time.

    Set your mosque.

    Drop a pin or search nearby, and enter the khutbah time. Add home, and Khutwa knows the distance and how long you take to walk it.

  2. Walk: the step count and the route glowing across the map.

    Know when to leave.

    A reminder on Thursday evening, and one on Friday at the moment to set out: computed from the khutbah time, the distance, and your own pace, not a formula.

  3. Arrival: the ring closed, the steps to Jumu'ah, and the hadith's own words.

    Walk. Arrive. The ring closes.

    Start the walk and Khutwa counts your steps and traces the route. When you reach the mosque it goes quiet, and stays quiet until well after the prayer.

What it does

Quiet, careful, and on your side.

Everything Khutwa does is in service of one walk a week. Nothing in it is designed to keep you looking at your phone.

  • A step counter for the Friday walk.

    The phone's pedometer, Health Connect on Android, or GPS distance: the walk to Jumu'ah is counted whichever way your phone allows, and the route is drawn beside it.

  • A Jumu'ah reminder that knows your pace.

    A Thursday-evening nudge and a Friday leave-by time, from your mosque's khutbah time, the distance, and how fast you actually walk.

  • Quiet in the masjid.

    From before the khutbah until well after the prayer, Khutwa is silent. It will not interrupt you where it matters most.

  • The conditions, not a score.

    Ghusl, going early, walking, drawing near, listening, no idle talk: a gentle checklist that keeps the hadith's own terms in view.

  • A forgiving streak.

    Travel, illness, Eid on a Friday, any reason at all, never asked for. An excused week preserves your run instead of breaking it. No guilt, no nagging.

  • A map of accumulating light.

    Every route you have ever walked, drawn on one map. The road you take most shines brightest.

  • The texts, with their gradings.

    Read the hadiths behind all of it, with their chains, their gradings, and the three classical readings of the word ghusl. Transcribed by hand, never machine-translated.

  • Forgot to start? Log it after.

    Missed the start? Log the walk afterwards, from the pedometer's own history. There is no way to dead-end.

What it does not do

Nothing leaves your phone.

Where you live and where you pray are as sensitive as data gets. So Khutwa has no account, no analytics, no crash-reporting SDK, no advertising, and no server of ours that could receive anything.

  • No account.

    No sign-up, no email address, no password.

  • No analytics.

    No telemetry, no crash reporter, no tracking. None.

  • No ads.

    Free, with no in-app purchases and no subscription.

  • No server.

    Your Fridays, steps and routes are stored on the device and nowhere else.

The only network requests Khutwa ever makes happen when you ask: searching for a mosque and suggesting places as you type an address (Google Places), looking up a mosque's published khutbah times (Mawaqit, the timetable service mosques run themselves), checking for an update, and loading the map. Each one is disclosed at the point of action. The privacy policy is written in terms you can check against the app.

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App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. Google Play data safety: no data collected or shared.

Why it exists

Most Muslims have never heard this hadith. Of those who have, few live it. That is the entire reason this app exists.

A year of fasting. A year of standing in prayer. For every step, in shā' Allāh.

We are not asking for money. Not followers. Not even a rating. We just want the reward, same as you.

Jumu'ah is coming. Walk.

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In your language, right to left included.

Interface in 23 languages, with full right-to-left layout for Arabic, Urdu and Persian. The sacred texts are never machine-translated: every hadith and every citation was transcribed and checked against its published source by hand.

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Get the app

Free, for every Friday.

Khutwa is free. There are no purchases, no subscriptions and no ads. It exists so that the walk gets walked, in shā' Allāh.

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Khutwa is being submitted to both stores. The buttons light up the day it is approved.

iPhone and Android phones. Apple Watch and Wear OS are on the way.

Questions? Support is a page away.

Questions

Asked before you ask.

Is Khutwa free?

Yes. Free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription. There is nothing to unlock.

Does Khutwa tell me how many years of reward I have?

No, and it never will. The hadith names its promise for a set of acts done together. The app shows what you did beside what the text says, in shā' Allāh, and never multiplies the two. That number is with Allah, not in an app.

Is the hadith authentic?

It is Sunan Abī Dāwūd 345, graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī; the same wording is in Sunan Ibn Mājah 1087, and a close one in Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 496, which al-Tirmidhī himself graded ḥasan. Every text in the app was transcribed and checked against its published source by hand, and the app's Learn tab gives each one with its chain and grading.

Does it track my location?

Only while a walk you started is running, with the when-in-use permission, to draw the route and notice that you have arrived. It never asks for the always-on permission, and your phone shows its location indicator the whole time. The route is stored on the device and never uploaded.

I forgot to start the walk. Is the Friday lost?

No. Log it afterwards: on iPhone the pedometer keeps about seven days of history, so the count can still be taken from it, and on any phone you can enter it by hand. There is no way to dead-end.

What happens when I cannot walk one week?

Mark the Friday excused, for any reason, and you are never asked what it was. An excused Friday preserves your run rather than breaking it. Nothing in Khutwa nags.

Does it work without an internet connection?

Yes. The walk, the stats, the reminders and the texts need no connection. Only the mosque search and address suggestions (Google Places), the khutbah-time lookup (Mawaqit), the update check and the map tiles use the network, and only when you ask for them.

Which phones does it run on?

iPhone, and Android phones running Android 8.0 or later. Apple Watch and Wear OS versions are planned.

Is Khutwa a Friday prayer step counter?

Yes, for one walk a week. It counts the steps of your walk to the mosque for Jumu'ah, draws the route, and shows the count beside the hadith's conditions. It is not a general fitness tracker and does not count steps on other days.

Does Khutwa remind me when to leave for Jumu'ah?

Yes. It computes a leave-by time from your mosque's khutbah time, the distance from home and your own walking pace, then reminds you on Thursday evening and again on Friday when it is time to go.

What does "Khutwa" mean?

Khutwa (خطوة) is Arabic for a step. It is the hadith's own word, the unit the reward is attached to. Jumu'ah, the Friday prayer, is also written Jummah or Jumuah; the app is the same whichever spelling you searched for.