I add: Abū Ḥātim is also among those who declared him reliable, as recorded in al-Talkhīṣ (3/159); for that reason Ibn Ḥajar says in al-Taqrīb, “He is trustworthy.”

A corroborating report comes through Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ, transmitted by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr; its chain is ḥasan, as noted in al-Majmaʿ (1/331). Another support is the narration of Bilāl, stating that he used to repeat the adhān. It is recorded by Qat. (89) with a sound chain, and this practice is enjoined in the two Ṣaḥīḥs.

This is the adhān of the people of Madinah, and it is the opinion adopted by Mālik in al-Mudawwanah (1/57).

The third variant contains fifteen phrases; it is identical to the first except that it omits the tarjīʿ (the low-voice repetition), as in the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd b. ʿAbd Rabbih mentioned earlier. This is the adhān of the Kufans, and it was likewise the position of Abū Ḥanīfah and Sufyān al-Thawrī, as recorded in al-Majmūʿ (3/93).

5. No additional wording is legislated in the adhān except at two specific points:

   1. In the first adhān of dawn alone: after saying “Come to success,” the caller says twice, “Prayer is better than sleep, prayer is better than sleep.”

There are several aḥādīth on this:

a) From Abū Maḥdhūrah: the Prophet ﷺ taught him, in the first adhān of dawn, to say, “Prayer is better than sleep, prayer is better than sleep.”