Abdullah bin Umar said: Umar bin al-Khattab saw a silken suit sold at the gate of the mosque. He said: Messenger of Allah, would that you purchase this suit and wear it on Friday and on the occasion when a delegation (from the outside) comes to you. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: One who has no share in the afterlife will put on this (suit). Afterwards suits of similar nature were brought to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . He gave Umar bin al-Khattab one of these suits. Umar said: Messenger of Allah, you are giving it to me for use while you had told me such-and-such about the suit of ‘Utarid (I. e. sold by ‘Utarid). The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: I did not give it to you that you should wear it. Hence Umar gave it to his brother who was a disbeliever at Makkah for wearing.

Abdullah bin Umar said: Umar bin al-Khattab saw a suit of silken cloth being sold in the market. He took it to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم , and said: Purchase it ad decorate with it on Eid on the occasion of the arrival of delegations. The narrator then narrated the tradition. The former version is complete.

Narrated Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: What is the harm if any of you has two garments, if he can provide them, for Friday (prayer) in addition to the two garments for his daily work? Amr reported from Ibn Habib from Musa ibn Saad from Ibn Habban from Ibn Salam who heard this (tradition) from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم on the pulpit. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been reported by Yusuf bin Abdullah bin Salam from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم through a different chain of narrators.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم prohibited buying and selling in the mosque, announcing aloud about a lost thing, the recitation of a poem in it, and prohibited sitting in a circle (in the mosque) on Friday before the prayer.

Abu Hazim bin Dinar said: People came to Sahl bin Saad al-Saeedi, when they were doubtful about the kind of wood of the pulpit (in the mosque of the Prophet). They asked him about it. He said: By Allah, I know (the wood) of which it was made; I saw it the first day when it was placed there, and the first day when the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sat on it. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sent for a woman whom Sahl named and asked her: Order your boy, the carpenter, to construct for me a wooden pulpit so that I sit on it when I deliver a speech to the people. So she ordered him and he made a pulpit of a wood called tarfa taken from al-Ghabah (a place at a distance of nine miles from Madina). He brought it to her. She sent it to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . He ordered and that was placed here. I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم praying on it: he said: "Allah is most great"; he then bowed while he was on it; then he returned and prostrated in the root of the pulpit; he then returned (to the pulpit). When he finished (the prayer), he addressed himself to the people and said: O people, I did this so that you may follow me and know my prayer.

Ibn Umar said: When the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم became fat, Tamim al-Dari said to him: Should I make for you pulpit, Messenger of Allah, that will bear the burden of your body ? He said: Yes. So he made a pulpit consisting of two steps.

Salamah bin al-Akwa said: The space between the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and the wall (of the mosque) was such that a goat could pass.

Narrated Abu Qatadah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم disapproved of the offering of prayer at the meridian except on Friday. The Hell-fire is kindled except on Friday. Abu Dawud said: This is a mursal tradition (i. e. the successor is narrating it directly from the Prophet). Mujahid is older than Abu al-Khalil, and Abu al-Khalil did not hear (any tradition from) Abu Qatadah.

Anas bin Malik said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to offer the Friday prayer when the sun declined.

Salamah bin al-Akwa reported on the authority of his father: We used to offer the Friday prayer along with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and return (to our homes) while no shade of the walls was seen (at that time).