day, and the supplication of one who is fasting is likely to be answered. So perhaps he gathered his family and supplicated at sunset. But for this to be done in the mosques, publicly and openly, there is no doubt that it is an innovation. For had it been good, they—that is, the Companions—would have preceded us in doing it, and it would have been among those matters for which there are abundant motives to transmit them.

With regard to acts of worship, it is not sound to say, “There is no harm in it,” for they are either sunnah, and thus prescribed, or innovation, in which case there is harm in them. As for an act of worship that entails no harm, this is questionable.