calling the adhan in ridicule.

The Prophet ﷺ said, “I have just heard among those people a call to prayer voiced by a man with a beautiful tone.” He therefore sent for us, and we each delivered the adhan one after another; I was the last of them. When I had finished, he said, “Come here.” He seated me in front of him, passed his hand over my forelock, blessed me three times, and then said, “Go and give the adhan at the Sacred House (the Kaʿbah).”

I asked, “How, O Messenger of Allah?” He taught me the opening words exactly as they were then proclaimed, and at dawn he added the phrase, “Prayer is better than sleep.” He also taught me the iqamah, each phrase to be said twice …—the rest of the report. (1)

Ibn Jurayj said: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Maḥdhūrah informed us that ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥayriz—who had been an orphan brought up in the care of Abū Maḥdhūrah—told him that, when Abū Maḥdhūrah equipped him for a journey to Syria, he taught him the adhan. (2)

Al-Waqidī said: Abū Maḥdhūrah continued to give the adhan in Mecca until he died in the year 59 AH, and the adhan has remained in the hands of his children and grandchildren up to this very day in Mecca. (3)

Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allah recited on someone’s behalf:

By the Lord of the veiled Kaʿbah,
by what Muḥammad recited of a surah,
and by the melodies of Abū Maḥdhūrah,
I shall indeed commit a censured deed!

Ḥātim ibn Abī Ṣaghīrah, on the authority of Ibn Abī Mulaykah, related that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entrusted the adhan to Abū Maḥdhūrah. When ʿUmar later arrived and took up residence in Dar al-Nadwah, Abū Maḥdhūrah gave the adhan and then came to greet him, whereupon he said—