that—even though it is authentically reported that the Prophet ﷺ did so—was deemed undesirable, then all the more reason to avoid turning into a habit an act the Prophet ﷺ never prescribed. If, from time to time, a person offers this prayer between the two calls to prayer as an unrestricted voluntary prayer, or simply as a prayer between the adhan and the iqamah, the way he might pray before ʿAsr or ʿIshāʾ, and not because he regards it as a fixed sunnah, that is permissible. Should he find himself among people who regularly perform it, and he is someone they would follow so that, were he to omit it and clarify the sunnah to them, they would not object but would rather come to know the sunnah, then leaving it is commendable. But if he is not in a position to be heeded and he judges that performing it