The Prophet ﷺ said, "When it is Friday, the angels sit at the doors of the mosque and record those who come for the Friday prayer. When the imam comes out, the angels fold up their scrolls and enter the mosque to listen to the remembrance."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ also said, "The one who hastens early to the Friday prayer is like one who offers a camel as sacrifice, then like one who offers a cow, then like one who offers a sheep, then like one who offers a duck, then like one who offers a chicken, then like one who offers an egg."
حدثنا عبد الأعلى عن معمر عن الزهري عن الأغر أبي عبد الله صاحب أبي هريرة
أن النبي ﷺ قال إذا كان يوم الجمعة قعدت الملائكة على أبواب المسجد فكتبوا من جاء إلى الجمعة فإذا خرج الإمام طوت الملائكة الصحف ودخلت تسمع الذكر وقال رسول الله ﷺ المهجر إلى الجمعة كالمهدي بدنة ثم كالمهدي بقرة ثم كالمهدي شاة ثم كالمهدي بطة ثم كالمهدي دجاجة ثم كالمهدي بيضة
Its chain of transmission is sahih. Its meaning has already appeared, similarly, in 7257, from the narration of Zuhri from Saeed bin Musayab, from Abu Hurairah, and we noted there this point, and that it was narrated - along with the one that follows it - by Bukhari 2:336, and Muslim 1:235, through the route of Zuhri from Abu Abdullah Aghar, from Abu Hurairah, and this is the very route found here. It was also narrated from this same route by Nasai 1:205-206, who narrated it along with the one that follows it, from Nasr bin Ali bin Nasr, from Abdul-Ala, with this chain of transmission.In the three source manuscripts here, the phrase "from Abu Hurairah" has been omitted, and this is an old error made by the copyists in some copies of the Musnad. Had this omission been correct, the hadith would not have belonged among the musnad narrations, since it would then be a mursal hadith. The phrase "from Abu Hurairah" has been added in the margin of manuscript K, in fine handwriting, and we could not determine with certainty whether this represents a correction or merely a note indicating a variant in another copy. However, we have included this addition because it is confirmed in its place within this very chain of transmission according to Hafiz bin Kathir in Jami al-Masanid wal-Sunan, and because all the other narrations in the Sahihayn and elsewhere agree that it comes from the narration of Aghar from Abu Hurairah, connected without any break.