—and al-Tirmidhī said, “The ḥadīth of Abū Maḥdhūrah on the adhān is sound, and it has come down to us through several independent chains.”

Al-Dāraquṭnī likewise records it (87) on the authority of al-Ḥumaydī, who said: “Abū Ismāʿīl Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī Maḥdhūrah narrated to us; he said, ‘I heard my grandfather ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī Maḥdhūrah relate from his father, Abū Maḥdhūrah, a report to the same effect.’”

This very adhān is the call observed by the people of Mecca, and it is the position of al-Shāfiʿī, as al-Tirmidhī noted, and the view preferred by Ibn Ḥazm (3/150).

A second version consists of seventeen phrases. It matches the first except that the opening takbīr is pronounced twice instead of four times. This is the wording transmitted by Muslim and others—such as Mālik in the Mudawwanah (1/57–58)—from Abū Maḥdhūrah, yet, as mentioned earlier, it is the weaker recension. Nevertheless, supporting reports show that it has a foundation in the Sunnah. Among them is the narration from Saʿd al-Qaraẓ, the Prophet’s ﷺ muʾadhdhin, stating that Bilāl would call the adhān in pairs and double the testimonies while facing the qiblah, saying: “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah (twice); I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (twice).” Then he would return and say: “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah (twice); I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (twice). Come to prayer (twice); come to success (twice). Allah is most great, Allah is most great; there is no god but Allah…,” and so on.

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded this report in al-Ṣaghīr (240–241) through Hishām b. ʿAmmār, who said: “He narrated to us …”