Religious Innovations Concerning Friday

After completing the summary of the foregoing rulings, together with their annotations and verifications, I remembered that I have a pending project for a book entitled “The Dictionary of Innovations.” I therefore decided to extract from it the material dealing with the Friday-related innovations, arrange it, and append it to this treatise so that the benefit might be perfected. The reason is that I do not know when the opportunity will arise and the means will be facilitated for me to bring “The Dictionary of Innovations” into existence; and what cannot be achieved in full should not be abandoned in its entirety.

Before beginning this section, a brief word is in order. I say:

One of the things that must be understood is that knowing the bidʿahs (religious innovations) that have been introduced into the religion is extremely important, for a Muslim cannot draw near to