Is the adhan and iqamah in the ear of the newborn established in the Sunnah?

The Shaykh : Please, my brother?

The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh. Is the adhan in the ear of the newborn established in the Sunnah?

The Shaykh : Previously, we considered it hasan (a good hadith) based on a corroborating narration (shahid) that we relied on from Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah in his treatise: Tuhfat al-Mawdud. What is the title?
The student : Tuhfat al-Mawdud.

The Shaykh : He attributed this corroborating narration to the book "Shu'ab al-Iman" by al-Bayhaqi, and he limited himself to weakening it. So, I offer this advice to those present, in response to some of the extremists among our young brothers in this da'wah who think that merely because they have understood something of the principles and rules of this da'wah, they have become independent and no longer need to benefit from the efforts, opinions, and independent legal reasoning (ijtihad) of the scholars. I say that students of knowledge, especially if they are beginners in it, must benefit from the efforts, opinions, and independent legal reasoning of the earlier scholars; otherwise, they will remain ignorant, knowing very little of knowledge, only the very little that they might reach through their own effort. So, I said: I relied on strengthening the hadith narrated by al-Tirmidhi, whose chain is weak, regarding the adhan in the ear of the newborn. I was aware of its weakness, but I strengthened it and raised it from the level of weakness to the level of hasan (a good hadith) using the corroborating narration mentioned by Imam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, which was attributed to "Shu'ab al-Iman" by al-Bayhaqi. He explicitly stated that its chain is weak. I said, acting on the rule of the hadith scholars that a weak hadith is strengthened by other narrations, and I proceeded on this basis for many years. In these recent days, the book "Shu'ab al-Iman" by al-Bayhaqi was printed, which is where Ibn al-Qayyim had attributed the hadith that I used as a corroborating narration for al-Tirmidhi's hadith. I searched for the hadith in "Shu'ab" and found its chain to be very weak, such that the rules of hadith science do not allow me to strengthen al-Tirmidhi's hadith with this corroborating narration, because it is required that a corroborating narration not be severely weak. When it became clear to me the severity of its weakness, to the point that one of its narrators is accused of fabrication and lying, I retracted my position. And returning from an error is not a defect, a shame, or ignorance; rather, it is knowledge and the correct path, which is the only thing permissible for a student of knowledge to do. This is the history of this issue.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. And what about the iqamah?

The Shaykh : The iqamah follows it.