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I heard As-Saib bin Yazid, saying, "In the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and Abu Bakr and `Umar, the
Adhan for the Jumua prayer used to be pronounced after the Imam had taken his seat on the pulpit.
But when the people increased in number during the caliphate of `Uthman, he introduced a third
Adhan (on Friday for the Jumua prayer) and it was pronounced at Az-Zaura' and that new state of
affairs remained so in the succeeding years.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 11, Hadith 40
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`Uthman bin `Affan introduced the second Adhan on Fridays when the number of the people in the
mosque increased. Previously the Adhan on Fridays used to be pronounced only after the Imam had
taken his seat (on the pulpit).
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Some people went to Sahl bin Sa`d As-Sa`idi and told him that they had different opinions regarding
the wood of the pulpit. They asked him about it and he said, "By Allah, I know of what wood the
pulpit was made, and no doubt I saw it on the very first day when Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took his seat on it.
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent for such and such an Ansari woman (and Sahl mentioned her name) and said to
her, 'Order your slave-carpenter to prepare for me some pieces of wood (i.e. pulpit) on which I may sit
at the time of addressing the people.' So she ordered her slave-carpenter and he made it from the
tamarisk of the forest and brought it (to the woman). The woman sent that (pulpit) to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
who ordered it to be placed here. Then I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) praying on it and then bowed on it. Then
he stepped back, got down and prostrated on the ground near the foot of the pulpit and again ascended
the pulpit. After finishing the prayer he faced the people and said, 'I have done this so that you may
follow me and learn the way I pray.' "