N?fi‘ related that Ibn ‘Umar ( - رضي الله عنه -) once saw a man performing two [N?filah] Rak‘ahs on Friday in the same place where he performed the Jumu‘ah Sal?t . The former pushed the latter away and reproached him saying: ‘Do you perform Jumu‘ah Sal?t four Rak‘ahs??! (1)
Many Ah?d?th urge that N?filah should be done at home, some of which are the following:
1 - J?bir Ibn Abdill?h ( - رضي الله عنه -) related that the prophet ( - ) said: ‘Whenever you finish the [obligatory] Sal?t in the mosque, do some of your N?filah Sal?t at home for when you do so All?h ( - عز وجل -) will shower your house with goodness’. (2)
2 - Ibn ‘Umar ( - رضي الله عنه -) related that the prophet ( - ) said: ‘Perform part of your Sal?t at your homes, and never make them like grave yards’. (3) That is perform N?filah Sal?t at home and never make them like grave yards where no Sal?t is done.
3 - ‘Abdull?h Ibn Sa‘d ( - رضي الله عنه -) said that he once asked the prophet ( - ): ‘Which is better: doing Sal?t in the mosque or at home?’ He ( - ) said: ‘Do you see how much close my home is to the mosque, yet I prefer doing Sal?t at home to doing it in the mosque unless it is an obligatory Sal?t’. (4)
In another narration -narrated by Ab? D?w?d in his “Sunnan” through an authentic chain of narrators traced back to Zaid Ibn Th?bit- the prophet ( - ) said: ‘Doing Sal?t at home is much more
(1) Narrated by: Ab? D?w?d in “As-Sunnan” (no. 1127), Al-Baihaq? in “As-Sunnan Al-Kubr?” (vol. 3 / p. 240) through an authentic chain of narrators.
(2) Narrated by: Muslim in his “Sah?h” (vol. 1 / p. 539) (no. 778).
(3) Narrated by: Al-Bukh?r? in his “Sah?h” (no. 432) and (no. 1187) and Muslim in his “Sah?h” (no. 208).
(4) Narrated by: Ibn M?jah in “As-Sunnan” (vol. 1 / p. 439) (no. 1378), Ahmad and Ibn Khuzaimah -are reported in “At-Targh?b Wat Tarh?b” (vol. 1 / p. 178) and Ibn Hibb?n -as reported in “Misb?h Az-Zuj?jah” (vol. 1 / p. 444) which states that ‘the had?th’s chain of narrators is authentic and all the narrators are trust worthy ones’. Indeed it is so.