Is it permissible for the mu'adhdhin to send blessings upon the Prophet during the adhan and during the iqamah? And what is obligatory for the listeners?

The Shaykh: Go ahead.

The questioner : Is it permissible for the mu'adhdhin to send blessings upon the Prophet, whether silently or aloud? And is it permissible for the one who calls the iqamah?

The Shaykh : Excuse me, your first statement: is it permissible to do what?

The questioner : Is it permissible for the mu'adhdhin?

The Shaykh : The mu'adhdhin!

The questioner : To say "O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad" during the adhan?

The Shaykh : And to raise his voice?

The questioner : Is the address specifically for the one who hears the adhan? That is one aspect. The other aspect, regarding the one who calls the iqamah: is it permissible for him to say: and so on, or is the intended audience the listeners?

The Shaykh : You are explaining more hurriedly than I am. The mu'adhdhin has a duty, and the listeners have a duty. The mu'adhdhin's duty is to inform the people that the time for prayer has arrived. So his duty ends with his saying "There is no god but Allah," and then he descends. He does not add anything, neither at the beginning nor at the end, because that would be a correction of the Wise Lawgiver, the Lord of the worlds. And as He said - the Exalted - : . And the matter is as the common people say in some lands: "The excess is the brother of the deficiency." So it is not permissible to add to the adhan, neither at the beginning nor at the end. When the mu'adhdhin descends from the roof of the mosque—and I do not say from the minaret of the mosque, because the minaret is one of the later developments, or one of the innovations—and as came in the authentic hadith: "The mu'adhdhin in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to climb onto the roof of a house, or onto the roof of the mosque." When the mu'adhdhin descends, he has ample room to increase in sending blessings upon the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), at that time and at other times: . This is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said. But it is not permissible to establish a place that a Muslim must adhere to, a place whether it is a temporal place or a geographical place. It is not permissible to designate a specific place for an absolute act of worship, so that this act of worship remains absolute. Therefore, I said that this mu'adhdhin, when he descends from his adhan, may send blessings as much as he wishes without adhering to a specific manner. So the duty of the mu'adhdhin is to call the adhan, and his duty ends. The duty of the listeners is to respond to the mu'adhdhin with every phrase of the adhan, then to send blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and then to ask for the intercession for him. As for during the iqamah: the same ruling that applies to the adhan applies to the iqamah, because the iqamah, in legal terminology, is an adhan.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Where he said (peace and blessings be upon him): between every two adhans: meaning the adhan by which the mu'adhdhin ascends to the top, as we mentioned, and the second adhan, which is the iqamah in the mosque, . So the iqamah is an adhan, and it is prescribed to respond at that time, just as it is prescribed for the mu'adhdhin.