- The tarjiʿ is affirmed in the report concerning the adhān of Abū Mahdhūrah, but it is absent from the adhāns of Bilāl and ʿAbd Allāh b. Umm Maktūm. In such cases the recommended course is to perform it occasionally, thereby giving effect to every aspect of the Sunnah.
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya said: “The school of the hadith scholars and those who follow them is to allow every practice that is authentically established from the Prophet ﷺ. They find no fault with any of the variant forms when the wording differs—whether in the adhān, the iqāma, the tashahhud, or the modes of recitation. Perfect adherence to the Sunnah therefore requires that one sometimes do it this way and at other times that way. This was a constant principle of Imām Aḥmad with respect to every verbal and physical aspect of worship.”
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It is recommended that the muʾadhdhin possess a pleasant voice and deliver the call with beautiful intonation.
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The tarjiʿ is legislated: the caller pronounces the two testimonies softly, then repeats them aloud.
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In Abū Mahdhūrah’s adhān the opening takbīr is uttered twice, whereas Bilāl’s version carries it four times—the form shown to ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd in his dream.
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Abū Mahdhūrah’s adhān differs from Bilāl’s in the number of its phrases.
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Abū Mahdhūrah, from the Banū Jumaḥ clan of Quraysh, was a youth in Mecca after the Conquest. He and other boys were mock-reciting the adhān when the Prophet ﷺ heard him, was struck by the sweetness of his voice, summoned him, and taught him the call. He became the muʾadhdhin for the people of Mecca, while Bilāl remained the muʾadhdhin of Medina.