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The Prophet’s Muezzins, Peace and Blessings Be upon Him

There were four: two in Medina—Bilāl ibn Rabāh, the first to give the call to prayer for the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and ‘Amr ibn Umm Maktūm al-Qurashī al-‘Āmirī, who was blind. In Qubā’, there was Sa‘d al-Qaraz, the client of ‘Ammār ibn Yāsir; and in Mecca, Abū Mahdhūrah, whose name was Aws ibn Mi‘yar (1) al-Jumahī.

Of these, Abū Mahdhūrah would repeat the testimonies of faith aloud in the adhān after first reciting them quietly, and would use doubled phrases in the iqāmah, the call immediately preceding the prayer. Bilāl did not repeat the testimonies in this manner and used single rather than doubled phrases in the iqāmah. Al-Shāfi‘ī and the people of Mecca adopted Abū Mahdhūrah’s adhān and Bilāl’s iqāmah; Abū Hanīfah and the people of Iraq adopted Bilāl’s adhān and Abū Mahdhūrah’s iqāmah; and Imam Ahmad, alongside the scholars of hadith and the people of Medina, adopted both Bilāl’s adhān and his iqāmah. Mālik differed from them on two points: repeating the opening declaration of Allah’s greatness and saying the phrase “The prayer has begun” twice, neither of which he repeated.

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The Prophet’s Governors, Peace and Blessings Be upon Him

Among them was Bādhān ibn (2) Sāsān, a descendant of Bahrām Jūr. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, appointed him governor over all the people of Yemen after the death of Chosroes. He was thus the first governor of Yemen under Islam and the first of the non-Arab kings to embrace Islam.

After Bādhān’s death, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, appointed his son Shahr ibn Bādhān governor of Sana‘a and its dependencies. Shahr was then killed, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, appointed Khālid ibn Sa‘īd ibn al-‘Ās governor of Sana‘a.