“Whoever among you wishes to pray after the Friday prayer, let him pray four [rakʿahs].” This is the version related by Muslim. ʿUbayd ibn Saʿid also transmitted it from Abyad ibn Aban, from Sahl ibn Abi Salih, with the wording: “…let him pray four before it and four after it,” thereby adding the four rakʿahs that precede Jumuʿah. Ibn al-Sammak recorded this variant in al-Awwal min al-Rabiʿ min Hadith (fol. 107/2), and Abu Jaʿfar al-Razzaz in Sitta Majalis min al-Amali (fol. 232/1), both through the chain of ʿUbayd. He further said: “I asked Abyad, ‘Sufyan al-Thawri narrated to me from Sahl, from his father, from Abu Hurayra, as a marfuʿ report: “Whoever among you prays after Jumuʿah, let him pray four.”’ Abyad replied, ‘That is what Sufyan heard, and this is what I heard!’ ” I maintain that there can be no doubt about the invalidity of this addition: Abyad ibn Aban is its sole transmitter and he is not reliable, as stated by Ibn Abi Hatim in al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 1/1/312; moreover, it contradicts Sufyan and the other trustworthy narrators already mentioned. Small wonder, then, that the compilers of the Sunan and others—and certainly Muslim in his Sahih—ignored it. Al-Bajuri, following Ibn al-Qasim, committed a serious error when he cited this hadith (1/134) with the spurious addition, attributed it to Muslim, and used it to argue that the Friday prayer is like Dhuhr, claiming it is sunnah to pray four before it and four after it.