Unfortunately, many people loose these great rewards due to their laziness, ignorance and a abandoning their prophet’s ( - ) Sunnah through:

[1/ 58] Attending the mosque so late:

It is greatly recommended that one attends the mosque to perform Jumu‘ah Sal?t so early -as stated in the first two Ah?d?th and indicated in the third one which states: ‘ ... then performs what All?h ( - عز وجل -) has destined for him [of Sal?t] and when the Im?m comes, he listens to him carefully’. It was indeed the Salaf’s habit, such as Ibn ‘Umar, to prolong [N?filah] Sal?t before performing the Jumu‘ah Sal?t. This is a greatly recommended act for the one who attends the mosque on Friday; i.e. to spend his time doing Sal?t till the Im?m shows up [and starts delivering his speech]’. (1)

The first had?th indicates that:

* Going to the mosque early is a condition for one to gain the full reward of attending Jumu‘ah Sal?t, i.e. one would get for each step he takes a reward equal to that given for the one who spends a whole year fasting its days and performing Sal?t at its nights.

* One should preferably go to the mosque on foot. Both An-Nas?’? and Al-Baihaq? and many others titled the chapters dealing with this point: “The superiority of walking to Jumu‘ah Sal?t”.

* And going to the mosque on foot is better than going to it riding [one’s mount car, ... etc.], specially for attending Jumu‘ah and the two Eids Salaw?t.

As mentioned in “Mas?’?l Abdull?h” (no. 472), Im?m Ahmad said: ‘It is prefered that they [muslims] go to the Jumu‘ah Sal?t and the two Eids Salaw?t on foot’.

* It is also greatly recommended that one comes close to the Im?m in Jumu‘ah Sal?t . it is affirmed that the prophet ( - ) said: ‘Attend Thikr [i.e. the speech and Sal?t on Friday], come so