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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Repeating the first adhan for the Friday prayer

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In the first adhan for the Friday prayer, does one repeat after the mu'adhdhin?

Answer:
Yes. It is not an adhan; it is an adhan, it is a legislated adhan, because it is from the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs. Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), the third caliph, ordered it, and Ali ibn Abi Talib, one of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, was present, along with the Muhajireen and the Ansar, and they did not object to it, except for what is narrated from Ibn Umar, as Ibn Abi Shaybah mentioned in his Musannaf, that he called it an innovation.
Ibn Rajab (may Allah have mercy on him), when he transmitted the statement of Ibn Umar, said that he meant a good innovation, not a bad innovation, just as his father said about tarawih, "a blessing of an innovation." This means a linguistic innovation, not a religious innovation. Yes.
Source شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من الوجه السابع : أن اعتماد العبد على المخلوق وتوكله عليه يوجب له الضرر من جهته هو ولا بد — islamhouse.com (55:11)

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