After citing the report, ʿAbd Allāh, the son of Imām Aḥmad, added: “I asked my father, ‘What is meant by al-ishrāf?’ He replied, ‘It is that you say to yourself: “So-and-so will send me something; so-and-so will give me something.”’
Sixth report: from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, conveying the same purport as the fourth ḥadīth. It will be mentioned under Zakāt, God willing. See al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, al-Dāramī, al-Ṭaḥāwī, and Aḥmad.
There is also, in this chapter, the report of Abū Maḥdhūrah concerning the adhān: he said, “Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ summoned me after I had completed the call and handed me a purse containing some silver.” This narration has already been discussed under issue (4) of the adhān. In its chain is ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Maḥdhūrah, whose status is unknown, as al-Ḥāfiẓ notes in al-Talkhīṣ. Consequently, using this ḥadīth here as proof for the absolute permissibility of taking wages is unsound: first, because of its weakness; and second, because it does not involve requesting payment—rather, it relates a voluntary gift without any solicitation, something the preceding reports have already shown to be permissible. See al-Shawkānī.
- It is recommended that the call to prayer be given by one whose voice is the most pleasant and far-reaching.
There are two ḥadīths on the matter:
- From ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd, in the story of the adhān: he said, “When morning came I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him what I had seen, whereupon he said, ‘It is a true dream, if Allah wills, so stand with…’”