The ruling on responding to the adhan heard from a device
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Question:
The questioner says: “As-salamu alaykum wa rahmat Allah. Honorable Shaykh, I do not hear the adhan at home, and I read that the congregational prayer is not obligatory for me. Then I went and installed a program on my computer that plays the adhan. Am I required to respond merely by hearing it from the device, or not?”
Answer:
The one who hears the adhan is required to respond if he is able to do so. As for the one who does not hear the adhan due to a barrier—whether because he is inside the house, behind walls, or because he is hard of hearing while the mosque is nearby—he is required to attend and pray with the congregation. However, if he does not hear the adhan because of the distance between him and the mosque, then he is not required to attend, because he did not hear the call due to his distance. Yes.
The questioner says: “As-salamu alaykum wa rahmat Allah. Honorable Shaykh, I do not hear the adhan at home, and I read that the congregational prayer is not obligatory for me. Then I went and installed a program on my computer that plays the adhan. Am I required to respond merely by hearing it from the device, or not?”
Answer:
The one who hears the adhan is required to respond if he is able to do so. As for the one who does not hear the adhan due to a barrier—whether because he is inside the house, behind walls, or because he is hard of hearing while the mosque is nearby—he is required to attend and pray with the congregation. However, if he does not hear the adhan because of the distance between him and the mosque, then he is not required to attend, because he did not hear the call due to his distance. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/266 — archive.org (11:23)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.