The Adhan and Iqama
compiled by Arshad Hussain


 ADHAN
The call for prayers
ALLAHO-AKBAR-U'LLAHO-AKBAR
ALLAHO-AKBAR-U'LLAHO-AKBAR
ASH-HADU-ANLAA-ILAHA ILL'ALLAH
ASH-HADU-ANLAA-ILAHA ILL'ALLAH
ASH-HADU-ANNA-MUHAMMADAN RASOUL-U-LLAH
ASH-HADU-ANNA-MUHAMMADAN RASOUL-U-LLAH
HA-YA-ALA-SSALAH
HA-YA-ALA-SSALAH
HA-YA ALA-LFALAH
HA-YA ALA-LFALAH
ALLAHO-AKBAR-U'LLAHO-AKBAR
LAA-ILAHA ILL'ALLAH


IQAMA
The call to line up for prayers
ALLAHO-AKBAR-U'LLAHO-AKBAR
ASH-HADU-ANLAA-ILAHA ILL'ALLAH
ASH-HADU-ANNA-MUHAMMADAN RASOUL-U-LLAH
HA-YA-ALA-SSALAH
HA-YA ALA-LFALAH
QAD QAMATU-SSALAH
QAD QAMATU-SSALAH
ALLAHO-AKBAR-U'LLAHO-AKBAR
LAA-ILAHA ILL'ALLAH

Translation of Athan
(Call for prayers)
Allah is great, Allah is great
Allah is great, Allah is great
I bear witness there is no deity but Allah
I bear witness there is no deity but Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad (pbuh) is the Messenger of Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad (pbuh) is the Messenger of Allah
Hurry to the prayer
Hurry to the prayer
Hurry to the success
Hurry to the success
Allah is great, Allah is great
There is no deity but Allah

Translation of Iqama
(Call to line up for prayers)
Allah is great, Allah is great
I bear witness there is no deity but Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad (pbuh) is the Messenger of Allah
Hurry to the prayer
Hurry to the success
Prayer is in order
Prayer is in order
Allah is great, Allah is great
There is no deity but Allah

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 1.581 Narrated by Abu Qilaba
Anas said, "Bilal was ordered to pronounce the wording of Adhan twice and of Iqama once only." The sub narrator Isma'il said, "I mentioned that to Aiyub and he added (to that), 'Except Iqama (i.e. Qad-Qamatis-Salat which should be said twice).' "

Al-Muwatta Hadith
Hadith 3.7
 The Call to Prayer
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Hazim ibn Dinar that Sahl ibn Sad as-Saidi said, "There are two times when the gates of heaven are opened, and few who make supplication have it returned to them unanswered. They are at the timeof the adhan, and in a rank of people fighting in the way of Allah."
Malik was asked whether the adhan on the day of jumua was called before the time had come for the prayer and he said, "It is not called until after the sun has passed the meridian."
Malik was asked about doubling the adhan and the iqama, and at what point people had to stand when the iqama for the prayer was called. He said, "I have heard nothing about the adhan and iqama except what I have seen people do. As for the iqama, it is not doubled. That is what the people of knowledge in our region continue to do. As for people standing up when the iqama for the prayer is called, I have not heard of any definite point at which it is begun, and I consider it rather to be according to people's (individual) capacity, for some people are heavy and some are light, and they are not able to be as one man ."
Malik was asked about a gathering of people who wished to do the prescribed prayer calling the iqama and not the adhan, and he said, "lt is enough for them. The adhan is only obligatory in mosques where the prayer is said in congregation."
Malik was asked about the muadhdhin saying "Peace be upon you" to the imam and calling him to the prayer, and he was asked who was the first person to whom such a greeting was made. He replied, "I have not heard that this greeting occurred in the first community."
Yahya said that Malik was asked whether a muadhdhin who called the people to prayer and then waited to see if anyone would come and no one did, so he said the iqama and did the prayer by himself and then people came after he had finished, should repeat the prayer with them. Malik said, "He does not repeat the prayer, and whoever comes after he has finished should do the prayer by himself."
Yahya said that Malik was asked about a muadhdhin who called the adhan for a group of people, did voluntary prayers, and then the group of people wanted to do the prayer with some one else saying the iqama. He said, "There is no harm in that. His iqama or somebody else's are the same."
Yahya said that Malik said, "The subh prayer is still called before dawn. As for the other prayers, we believe that they should only be called after the time has started."

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 678 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: He who pronounces the Adhan for twelve years is assured of Paradise and sixty merits are recorded for him every day for (every) Adhan and thirty merits for every Iqamah.
Transmitted by Ibn Majah.


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