Is it established that the Friday prayer has a four-rak'ah Sunnah (supererogatory prayer) performed before it?
"The supererogatory regular (ratibah) prayers before the Friday prayer (Jumu'ah) are a matter about which scholars have differed. This is an issue of (independent reasoning) that should not be a cause for dispute or fanaticism. Any disagreement regarding it must be referred back to the Quran and .
The hadiths and narrations that speak about prayer before Jumu'ah do not indicate that it is a regular supererogatory (ratibah) prayer; rather, they refer to general voluntary (nafl mutlaq) prayers. No regular supererogatory prayer before Jumu'ah has been authentically established from the Prophet (peace be upon him), nor was there a specific time for its performance during his era.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said: 'As for the Sunnah prayer before Jumu'ah, nothing has been established concerning it.' Ibn al-Qayyim said: 'Jumu'ah is like Eid; it has no Sunnah prayer before it. This is the sounder of the two opinions of the scholars, and the Sunnah supports it.'
The argument for the existence of a pre-Jumu'ah Sunnah by analogy with Dhuhr prayer is a flawed analogy, as Jumu'ah is an independent prayer, and the Sunnah is not established through analogy in such matters."
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