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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is there a call to prayer that requires the iqamah to be performed, and what is the authenticity of the hadith regarding this?

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The questioner : ... ؟

The Shaykh :
Indeed, the reminder benefits the believers. فإن الذكرى تنفع المؤمنين
Many people assume that it is not permissible for anyone other than the mu'adhdhin to perform the iqamah, and they base this claim on a hadith circulated in some books of Islamic jurisprudence with the wording
Whoever calls the adhan, let him perform the iqamah من أذّن فليقم
. The reminder is that this hadith is weak and not authentic. Therefore, there is no legal impediment to the one who performs the iqamah being other than the mu'adhdhin, and the mu'adhdhin being other than the one who performs the iqamah. However, if the mu'adhdhin is a regular mu'adhdhin, he is like the regular imam; it is not befitting for anyone else to take precedence over him without his permission. This is considered like the first issue. The first issue is in a gathering like this, for example, where there is no regular imam and no regular mu'adhdhin. If a mu'adhdhin calls the adhan, it is permissible for someone else to perform the iqamah. But in mosques that have imams and mu'adhdhins specifically assigned to perform this duty, it is not permissible to take precedence over them without their permission. This is not based on the statement in the aforementioned hadith
Whoever calls the adhan, let him perform the iqamah من أذّن فليقم
. This is a weak hadith, and it is not permissible to cite it as evidence. Rather, to prevent the harm that may result from non-mu'adhdhins rushing to the mu'adhdhin because he performs the iqamah in place of the mu'adhdhin, to prevent the harm, it is possible to say in that mosque that only the one who called the adhan should perform the iqamah. But this is not a general rule, but rather...
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