This is precisely what has been transmitted from the Companions: when they arrived at the mosque on Friday, they would begin praying whatever was made easy for them the moment they entered. Some of them performed ten rakʿahs, others twelve, others eight, and some fewer than that. For this reason the vast majority of the leading jurists agreed that there is no pre-Jumuʿah sunnah prayer fixed to a particular time or set at a specific number of rakʿahs, for such a ruling could only be established through the Prophet’s ﷺ words or actions—and he prescribed nothing of the sort, neither by statement nor by deed. This is the position of Mālik, of al-Shāfiʿī and most of his followers, and it is