and 18/559)

43 – The preacher’s practice of stepping down to a lower tier of the pulpit during the second sermon and then climbing back up again. (Ḥāshiyat Ibn ʿĀbidīn, 1/770)

44 – Their excessive haste in delivering the second sermon. (al-Manār, 18/858)

45 – Turning the head right and left when saying, “I command you and I forbid you,” and when invoking blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ. (al-Bāʿith, 65; Ḥāshiyat Ibn ʿĀbidīn, 1/759; Iṣlāḥ al-Masājid, 48; al-Manār, 18/558)

46 – Ascending one step of the pulpit to invoke blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ and then descending after finishing. (al-Bāʿith, 65)

47 – Their deliberate use of rhymed prose and of arranging statements in twos, threes, fours, or fives in their writings and sermons, even though rhymed prose is explicitly discouraged in the Ṣaḥīḥ. (al-Sunan, 75)

48 – The insistence of many of them on citing, at the close of the sermon, the ḥadith: “Indeed, every night of Ramadan Allah frees six hundred thousand souls from the Fire, and when the last night arrives He frees a number equal to all those previously liberated.”