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707 All these years I have heard the Azaan being recited the same way in every country. My friend told me the other day that apparently there is not any Hadith that suggests the Azaan is performed where everything is recited twice except Allahu Akbar which is four times at the beginning. He says everything is to be recited once and Allahu Akbar twice.

Can you show me the evidences supporting both these views?
Firstly, Muslims do not get their Fiqh from books of Hadith; they get it from books of Fiqh. When a person takes his Fiqh from the books of Hadith, like so many youngsters today, they merely get a glimpse of the action or saying, without understanding how it fits in into Islam.

When we read Fiqh from Fiqh books, then we read the same Ahadith to be found in Sahih al-Bukhari, but we get support from the experts of Fiqh as to how exactly this fits into the Fiqh of Islam.

Remember that just because a Hadith is to be found in Sahih Bukhari or any other Sahih compilation, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is acted upon. Your friend has not come across the report recorded by Imam al-Bukhari and reported by Hazrat Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that ‘...Bilal was ordered to perform the Azaan in duals…’ (i.e. recite everything twice). (Sahih al-Bukhari; Hadith no. 568).

The same report is to be found in; Sahih Muslim Hadith. No. 569, 570, 571, 572
Sunan Tirmidhi Hadith. No. 176, 177, 178, 179

(Answered by: Alims at Islamic Centre, Leicester, UK.)
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