150 – Ibn ʿUmar and ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Bilāl gives the adhān during the night, so eat and drink until Ibn Umm Maktūm calls the adhān. He was a blind man and would not call until he was told, ‘Morning has come, morning has come.’” Agreed upon; the final words contain an editorial insertion.⦗1⦘

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• “So eat and drink”: that is, take the pre-dawn meal (suḥūr) if you intend to fast.
• “Calls” (yunādī): meaning “gives the adhān,” as in al-Ṭaḥāwī’s wording. Both expressions convey the same idea, for the adhān is the public call; Allah the Exalted says: “O you who believe, when the call is made for the prayer on Friday …” (Q 62:9).
Al-Miṣbāḥ states that the noun nidāʾ is more commonly pronounced with a kasrah on the nūn than with a ḍammah, and that the lengthened vowel is more common than the shortened.
• “During the night” (bi-layl): the preposition bāʾ indicates circumstance, i.e., “in the night,” specifically just before dawn, as clarified in al-Bukhārī’s narration: “Nothing came between their two adhāns except that one would be ascending while the other was descending.”
• “Morning has come, morning has come” (aṣbaḥta, aṣbaḥta): meaning, “Dawn has broken,” for al-Bayhaqī’s report states: “He would not call the adhān until the people could see the first light of dawn.”
Scholars have differed over the given name of Ibn Umm Maktūm; the majority say it was ʿAmr. He was a Qurashī from Banū ʿĀmir, while his mother was from Banū Makhzūm. One of the earliest Emigrants, it was about his story that the opening verses of Sūrat ʿAbasa were revealed.