Explanation of the permissibility of the first and second adhan for the Fajr prayer, and that the second adhan is the one in which abstaining from food is obligatory for the fasting person.

The questioner : My master...

The Shaykh: Go ahead.

The questioner : Regarding the Fajr prayer, in some mosques they give the adhan twice. Is the two adhan reports authentic or not?

The Shaykh : Ah, how is it not authentic? It is in the two Sahihs. Pray the greeting of the mosque, may Allah reward you, two rak'ahs, and get close to the sutrah from the wall.

The questioner : On Friday...

The Shaykh : With this question, you have taken the head of the answer. I want to give you the evidence. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do you see? He had two mu'adhdhins: one was Bilal, and no one does not know him, and the second was Ibn Umm Maktum, his name was 'Amr.
He told them: When you hear Bilal's adhan, do not be deceived by it and say: "That's it, there is no more eating." No, he gives the adhan at night. And in a narration: meaning: before the dawn breaks . He was a blind man who could not see the dawn, so he would not give the adhan unless some passersby passed by him and saw the dawn and said to him: "You have become a morning person, you have become a morning person." Only then would he give the adhan, because he was blind and could not see.
The point is that there were two: one gave the first adhan so that the sleeper would wake up, to catch up with either the witr prayer or the night prayer, or to catch up with the suhur if he wanted to eat suhur. So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When did he give the adhan? When the dawn broke and the passersby saw it and said to him: "You have become a morning person, you have become a morning person." Only then would he give the adhan. This is the adhan that Ibn Umm Maktum used to give, and it is the one that makes food forbidden and prayer permissible. Do you see? So there are two adhan, and this has a profound wisdom. Unfortunately, today...
A man from the audience: In Ramadan, of course?

The Shaykh : All the days of the year.

The questioner : All the days of the year?

The Shaykh : But you know there are people who fast outside of Ramadan voluntarily, for example on Monday, on Thursday. There are people who fast one day and break the fast the next day. There are people who have to make up fasts, especially women whom Allah has afflicted with menstruation. So how do they know when the time to stop eating has come or not? I know of incidents—meaning—very unfortunate ones. We go down to the mosque in Ramadan before the second adhan, the adhan of imsak. A person goes down and some people pass by him, eager, you feel that he has just woken up from sleep. He asks: "Is there time for me to eat suhur?" And I heard with my own ears, the answer: "No, there is no time." Why? Because he gave the adhan of imsak! Do you know the adhan of imsak? This is an adhan against imsak, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Glory be to Allah, how does it change? The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When did he give the adhan? When the dawn broke. So when they put imsak in the calendars a quarter of an hour before the adhan, you will find a Shaykh and a mosque imam coming in eagerly saying: "I did not eat suhur, do I have time?" And he says to him: "No, because he gave the adhan of imsak," while it is the adhan of eating: .
The point, my brother, is that the two adhan are throughout the year. Then do not forget that the issue is not just about fasting, as I told you. In a narration it says: He gets up to pray, meaning, and you know, I think, that delaying the night prayer is better than hastening it. But naturally, not everyone can do that. But the one who cannot delay the night prayer, let him pray it after 'Isha, as most people do today. There is no obstacle. But some people have the ability, they have free time, for example, but they may not notice. They hear the first adhan and wake up, just as they wake up for the second adhan for prayer and going to the mosque. So the first adhan is prescribed like the second adhan throughout the year. Is the answer clear?