"truthful," and he indicated in "al-Tahdhīb" that he is reliable and said: "Such a person is only harmed by contradicting the trustworthy, and nothing else, so his ḥadīth would then be considered anomalous." I say: This ḥadīth of his is authentic because he did not contradict the trustworthy; rather, it agrees with the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, which is elevated with the wording: "Between every two calls to prayer, there is a prayer. He said in the third: for whoever wishes." It was recorded by the six [major ḥadīth collections] and Ibn Naṣr. Some of the later scholars have used this ḥadīth as evidence for the legitimacy of the pre-Friday prayer sunnah, but this is an invalid inference, because it is established in al-Bukhārī and others that during the time of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) on Friday, there was only the first call to prayer and the iqāmah, with the khuṭbah in between, as I detailed in my treatise "al-Ajwibah al-Nāfiʿah." Therefore, al-Būṣīrī said in "al-Zawāʾid" when mentioning this ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh (p. 72/1) that it is the best evidence for the alleged Friday sunnah! He said: "This is impossible in his (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prayer, because between the call to prayer and the iqāmah was the khuṭbah, so there was no prayer between them." None of the ḥadīths regarding his (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) pre-Friday prayer sunnah are authentic at all, and some are weaker than others, as explained by al-Zaylaʿī in "Naṣb al-Rāyah" (2/206-207) and Ibn Ḥajar in "al-Fatḥ" (2/341), among others. I discussed some of them in the aforementioned treatise (pp. 23-26) and in "Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah." The truth is that the ḥadīth only indicates the legitimacy of praying before every obligatory prayer that is established that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) used to do, commanded, or approved of, such as the Maghrib prayer, for which the action, command, and approval are authentically established. As for the action and command, there is an explicit ḥadīth from the narration of ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī: "that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)