When the Jumu‘ah Sal?t time is due, one should immediately head to the mosque and should not busy himself with any kind of N?filah Sal?t. Were the pre-Jumu‘ah Sunnah Sal?t been legal, it should not be done before time is due’. (1)

Ab? Sh?mah’s point of view is true; the following points support it:

The first: Al-H?fith Al-Mizz? stated that the ascribe who copied Ibn M?jah’s Sunnan wrote the word Taji’ [come] instead of Tajlis [sit]. Many Shaikhs read Ibn M?jah’s Sunnan but none verified its wordings unlike the two Sah?hs of Bukh?r? and Muslim; many had?th reporters took great care in verifying their wordings and their diacritical marks, that is why they are free from mistakes unlike Ibn M?jah’s “Sunnan”. (2)

The second: Those scholars who paid much attention to the Sunnan practiced before and after Jumu‘ah Sal?t have never mentioned the had?th under discussion as an evidence on the pre-Jumu‘ah Sunnah Sal?t; they instead stated that it recommends doing Tahiyyatul Masjid even if the Im?m is on the pulpit. Had this had?th been about a pre Jumu‘ah Sunnah Sal?t, they should have mentioned it in the interpretation of the had?th and it would have been well-known and commonly practiced amongst muslims and been of the strongly affirmed Sunnan and well-known more than Tahiyyatul Masjid. (3)

The third: The prophet ( - ) never ordered any Sah?b? to do the two Rak‘ahs but the one who entered the mosque as a way of greeting it [i.e. Tahiyyatul Masjid].

Were the two Rak‘ahs the pre-Jumu‘ah Sunnah Sal?t, he ( - ) would have ordered all the other present Sah?bah to perform them. (4)