Book 10: The Call to Prayer (Adhan)
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 603
Imran bin Maisarah narrated to us that Abdul Warith told us that Khalid Hadhdha narrated to us. He narrated from Abu Qilabah, Abu Qilabah from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: The people mentioned fire and the bell, and the Jews and the Christians. Then Hazrat Bilal (ra) was commanded to give the call to prayer (Adhan), saying (its words) twice, and the Iqamah (only) once.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 604
Mahmud bin Ghailan narrated to us, he said: Abdur Razzaq narrated to us, he said: Ibn Juraij told us. He said: Nafi told me: Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra) used to say: When the Muslims came to Medina, they used to gather and estimate the time of the Prayer (Salat). No call to prayer (Adhan) was given for it. One day they talked about this. Some of them said: Make a bell like the bell of the Christians. And some said: No, rather like the bell of the Jews. Thereupon Hazrat Umar (ra) said: Why do you not appoint a man who (goes and) calls to the Prayer? The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Bilal! Get up and call to the Prayer.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 605
Sulaiman bin Harb narrated to us, he said: Hammad bin Zaid told us. He narrated from Simak bin Atiyyah, Simak from Ayyub, Ayyub from Abu Qilabah, Abu Qilabah from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: Hazrat Bilal (ra) was commanded to say the words of the call to prayer (Adhan) twice each, and in the Iqamah only once, except for the words “Qad qamatis-salah” (The Prayer has begun).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 606
Muhammad bin Salam narrated to me, he said: Abdul Wahhab (Thaqafi) told us. He said: Khalid Hadhdha narrated to us. He narrated from Abu Qilabah, Abu Qilabah from Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra). He said: When the people became many, the people talked of fixing some sign for the times of the Prayer (Salat), by which they would know the time. They consulted whether to light a fire or to strike a bell. Then Hazrat Bilal (ra) was commanded to say the words of the call to prayer (Adhan) twice, and in the Iqamah only once.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 607
Ali bin Abdullah narrated to us that Ismail bin Ibrahim narrated to us that Khalid told us. He narrated from Abu Qilabah, Abu Qilabah from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: Hazrat Bilal (ra) was commanded to repeat the words of the call to prayer (Adhan) and to say the Iqamah only once. Ismail said: Then I mentioned this to Ayyub, and he said: Except for the words of the Iqamah.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 608
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us, he said: Malik told us. He narrated from Abu Zinad, Abu Zinad from A'raj, A'raj from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “When the call is made for the Prayer (Salat), Satan turns his back and goes away breaking wind, so that he does not hear the call to prayer (Adhan). When the call to prayer is finished, he comes back again. Then, when the Takbir is said for the Prayer, he turns his back and goes away. When at last the Takbir is finished, he comes back again, to put thoughts between a man and his own self. He says: Remember this, remember that, and such things as he did not remember. Until the man reaches the point where he does not know how much of the Prayer he has offered.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 609
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us, he said: Malik told us. He narrated from Abdur Rahman bin Abdullah bin Abdur Rahman bin Abi Sa'sa'ah Ansari Mazini. Abdur Rahman narrated from his father that he related: Hazrat Abu Sa'id Khudri (ra) said to him: I see that you love goats and the wilderness. So when you are with your goats or in your wilderness, give the call to prayer (Adhan) for the Prayer (Salat), and raise your voice with the call. For as far as the voice of the caller (Mu'adhdhin) reaches, jinn and men and whoever else hears it will surely bear witness for him on the Day of Resurrection. Hazrat Abu Sa'id (ra) said: I heard this from the Messenger of Allah (saw).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 610
Qutaibah bin Sa'id narrated to us, he said: Ismail bin Ja'far told us. He narrated from Humaid, Humaid from Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra), that when the Prophet (saw) went out with us against a people, he would not order us to attack until morning came, and he would wait. If he heard the call to prayer (Adhan), he would refrain from them. If he did not hear the call to prayer, he would attack them. Hazrat Anas (ra) used to say: We set out for Khaibar and reached them by night. When he got up in the morning and did not hear the call to prayer, he mounted, and I rode behind Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra), and my foot was touching the foot of the Prophet (saw). He said: They came out, carrying their baskets and spades, and came towards us. When they saw the Prophet (saw), they said: It is Muhammad (saw)! By Allah, Muhammad (saw) and the army! (Hazrat Anas (ra)) said: When the Messenger of Allah (saw) saw them, he said: “Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar (Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest)”, and he said: “Khaibar is ruined. When we encamp in the courtyard of a people, then evil is the morning of those who have been warned beforehand.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 611
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us, he said: Malik told us. He narrated from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Ata bin Yazid Laithi, Ata from Hazrat Abu Sa'id Khudri (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “When you hear the call to prayer (Adhan), say what the caller (Mu'adhdhin) says.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 612
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ رَاهَوَيْهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ يَحْيَى نَحْوَهُ.
Mu'adh bin Fadalah narrated to us, he said: Hisham told us. He narrated from Yahya, Yahya from Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Harith. He said that Isa bin Talhah narrated to me. One day he heard Hazrat Mu'awiyah (ra) repeating (the words of the call to prayer) in the same way up to “Ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasulullah” (I bear witness that Muhammad (saw) is the Messenger of Allah (saw)). Ishaq bin Rahawaih narrated to us, he said: Wahb bin Jarir narrated to us, he said: Hisham told us, narrating from Yahya, that the same is narrated from Yahya.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 613
Yahya said: And some of our brothers narrated to me that (Isa bin Talhah) used to say: When (the caller) said: “Hayya alas-salah” (Come to the Prayer), (Hazrat Mu'awiyah (ra)) said: “La haula wa la quwwata illa billah” (There is no power and no strength except with Allah). And he said: This is how we heard your Prophet (saw) say it.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 614
Ali bin Ayyash narrated to us, he said: Shu'aib bin Abi Hamzah told us. He narrated from Muhammad bin Munkadir, he from Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Whoever, on hearing the call to prayer (Adhan), makes this supplication: ‘O Allah, Lord of this perfect call and of this Prayer that is about to be established, grant Muhammad (saw) the means to every kind of success and grant him every kind of excellence, and bring him to the Praised Station (Maqam Mahmud) which You have promised him’, my intercession on the Day of Resurrection has become due for him.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 615
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us, he said: Malik told us. He narrated from Sumayy, who was the freed slave of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra). Sumayy narrated from Abu Salih, Abu Salih from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “If people knew what (reward) there is in the call to prayer (Adhan) and in the first row, and then found no way except to draw lots, they would surely draw lots. And if they knew what (reward) there is in offering the Zuhr Prayer at its earliest time, they would race towards it. And if they knew what (reward) there is in the Isha and Fajr Prayers, they would come, even if they had to come crawling.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 616
Musaddad narrated to us, he said: Hammad told us. He narrated from Ayyub, from Abdul Hamid, the companion of Ziyadi, and from Asim Ahwal. They narrated from Abdullah bin Harith. He said: Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) addressed us on a day of rain and mud. When the caller (Mu'adhdhin) reached “Hayya alas-salah” (Come to the Prayer), he ordered him to call out: “As-salatu fir-rihal” (The Prayer in your dwellings), meaning that the Prayer (Salat) should be offered each in his own place. At this the people looked at one another, and he said: This was done by one who was better than him, and the Friday Prayer is obligatory.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 617
Abdullah bin Maslamah narrated to us. He narrated from Malik, Malik from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Salim bin Abdullah, he from his father, that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “It is still night when Bilal (ra) gives the call to prayer (Adhan). So eat and drink until Ibn Umm Maktum (ra) gives the call.” He said: Hazrat Ibn Umm Maktum (ra) was blind. He would not give the call until he was told: You have reached the morning.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 618
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us, he said: Malik told us. He narrated from Nafi, Nafi from Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra). He said that Hazrat Hafsah (ra) told me that when the caller (Mu'adhdhin), having given the call to prayer (Adhan) for the morning, sat down and the dawn appeared, the Messenger of Allah (saw) would offer two light Rak'ahs before the congregational Prayer (Salat) was begun.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 619
Abu Nu'aim narrated to us, he said: Shaiban told us. He narrated from Yahya, Yahya from Abu Salamah, Abu Salamah from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that the Prophet (saw) used to offer two light Rak'ahs between the call to prayer (Adhan) and the Iqamah of the morning Prayer (Salat).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 620
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us that Malik told us. He narrated from Abdullah bin Dinar, Abdullah bin Dinar from Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “It is still night when Bilal (ra) gives the call to prayer (Adhan). Eat and drink until Ibn Umm Maktum (ra) gives the call.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 621
Ahmad bin Yunus narrated to us, he said: Zuhair told us, he said: Sulaiman Taimi narrated to us. He narrated from Abu Uthman Nahdi, Abu Uthman from Hazrat Abdullah bin Mas'ud (ra), Hazrat Abdullah bin Mas'ud (ra) from the Prophet (saw), that he said: “La yamna'anna ahadakum”, or he said: “ahadan minkum”, that is: “Let not the call to prayer (Adhan) of Bilal (ra) keep any of you from the meal before dawn (Sahur). For he gives the call at night”, or he said: “he calls, so that he may send back home whoever of you is standing in the Tahajjud Prayer, and wake whoever of you is asleep. And the dawn”, or (he said:) “the morning, does not appear like this”, and he pointed with his fingers, raising them upwards and lowering them downwards, “until it becomes like this.” And Zuhair pointed with his two index fingers, one of them above the other. Then he drew each of them out to his right and to his left.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 622
وَحَدَّثَنِي يُوسُفُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّهُ قَالَ " إِنَّ بِلاَلاً يُؤَذِّنُ بِلَيْلٍ فَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يُؤَذِّنَ ابْنُ أُمِّ مَكْتُومٍ ".
Ishaq (Wasiti) narrated to us, he said: Abu Usamah told us, he said: Ubaidullah narrated to us, (he said:) He narrated from Qasim bin Muhammad, Qasim from Hazrat Aishah (ra), and from Nafi, Nafi from Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said … And Yusuf bin Isa Marwazi also narrated to me, he said: Fadl narrated to us, he said: Ubaidullah bin Umar told us. He narrated from Qasim bin Muhammad, and Qasim from Hazrat Aishah (ra), Hazrat Aishah (ra) from the Prophet (saw), that he said: “Bilal (ra) gives the call to prayer (Adhan) at night. So eat and drink until Ibn Umm Maktum (ra) gives the call.”
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