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Rh Afterwards ʿAbduʾlláh bin Salám said, "I have certainly come to know what hour it is." Abú Hurairah said, "Tell me of it, and keep it not to thyself." ʿAbduʾlláh bin Salám replied, "It is the last hour of Friday." I said to him, "How can it be the last hour of Friday, when the Apostle of God has said, 'It is an hour in which no servant, being a Muslim, prays and asks God for anything, but God gives it to him?' ʿAbduʾlláh bin Salám replied, "Did not the Apostle of God say, 'He who sits in an assembly waiting for prayer is in prayer until he prays?'" I said, "Yes." He said, "Well it is that hour."'—Málik, Abú Dáud, At Tirmidhí, An Nasái.

It is related from Aus bin Aus that, 'The Apostle of God said, "Verily Friday is one of the excellent of your days. In it Adam was born, in it he died, in it will take place the blowing (of the trumpet at the resurrection) and in it (will be heard) the noise of the thunderbolt. Therefore on that day multiply your prayers for blessings on me, for verily your prayers are presented before me." They replied, "O Apostle of God, how will our prayers be placed before thee when thou hast turned to dust?" He said, "Verily God has forbidden to the earth the bodies of the prophets."'—Abú Dáud, An Nasái, Ibn Májah.

It is related from ʿAbduʾlláh bin ʿOmar that, 'The Apostle of God said, " There is no Muslim who dies on Friday or on the night thereof, but God preserves him from the tortures of the grave."'—Aḥmad, At Tirmidhí.

It is related from Samurah bin Jundub that, 'The Apostle of God said, "He who neglects the Friday prayers without excuse, let him give in alms one dinar, and if he cannot get it, then half a dinar."'—Aḥmad, Abú Dáud.

It is related from Ṭáriq bin Shiháb that, 'The Apostle of God said, "The Friday prayers in the assembly are proper and obligatory for every Muslim, except for four persons: a slave, a woman, a child, or a sick person."'—Abú Dáud.

It is related from Náfiʿ that he said, 'I heard Ibn ʿOmar say that the Apostle of God prohibited any man from making