Abdul Aziz Lubnani narrates: I heard Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik saying that it was the practice of the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that when the muezzin would give the call to prayer for Maghrib, they would hasten towards the pillars so that they could perform two rak'ahs before Maghrib. If someone had been there at that time and seen the number of people performing these two voluntary prayers, he would have thought that perhaps the obligatory prayer had already been offered.