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Hadith 33890
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from
Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, said, "When the call to prayer is made Shaytan retreats,
passing wind, so that he will not hear the adhan. When the adhan is
completed he comes back, until, when the iqama is said, he retreats
again. When the iqama is completed, he comes back, until he comes
between a man and his self and says, 'Think of such and such, think of
such and such,' which he was not thinking about before, until the man
does not know how much he has prayed."
Muwatta Malik Book 3, Hadith 6
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd arRahman ibn Abdullah ibn
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Sasaca al-Ansari, and later al-Mazini, that his
father told him that Abu Said al-Khudri had said to him, "I see that
you love sheep and the desert. When you are among your sheep or in
your desert, call the prayer and raise your voice in the adhan,
because I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, say, 'No jinn or man or anything within range hears the
voice of the muadhdhin except that it bears witness for him on the day
of rising.' " Muwatta Malik Book 3, Hadith 5
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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." Muwatta Malik Book 3, Hadith 7