If ritual purity is prescribed for the adhān, it is even more appropriate for the iqāmah—the announcement that the congregation should rise for the prayer. Thus the scholars have said: it is disliked for a muḥdith (someone without wuḍūʾ) to give the iqāmah. Shaykh al-Islām comments that there is a difference of opinion over whether an iqāmah delivered by such a person is valid.

What deterred the scholars from acting on the apparent sense of the ḥadīth—so that they did not make purity obligatory for the muʾadhdhin—is the report’s weakness; a weak narration cannot serve as proof for establishing a legal ruling. Al-Tirmidhī graded it weak, al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar judged its chain disconnected, and al-Tirmidhī considered the version that stops with Abū Hurayrah to be sound.