Some have alleged that this extra phrase is merely an interpolation introduced by one of the narrators and is not part of the original report. That claim is rebutted by the fact that ʿAbd al-Razzāq transmitted it: Maʿmar narrated from Ayyūb, from Abū Qilāba, from Anas, who said, “Bilāl used to recite the adhān in doubled phrases and render the iqāma odd, except for the statement qad qāmatiṣ-ṣalāh (the prayer has commenced).”

Al-Dāraqutnī and Ibn Ḥazm recorded this wording through several chains from ʿAbd al-Razzāq. Al-Ḥāfiẓ commented:

“It is also related by Abū ʿAwānah in his Ṣaḥīḥ, al-Sarrāj in his Musnad, likewise in the Muṣannaf of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and by al-Ismāʿīlī through this same route, all of them stating: qad qāmatiṣ-ṣalāh twice. The governing rule is that whatever appears in a report is considered part of it unless evidence proves otherwise—and no such evidence exists.”

Second line of transmission: from Qatādah on the authority of Anas, with the first wording. Al-Ṭabarānī produced it in al-Ṣaghīr, saying, “Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Sarīnī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jaddī narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us from him….”

I do not know who al-Ṭabarānī’s shaykh is, while the remaining transmitters are those relied upon by the Six, except for this ʿAbd al-Malik, who is among the narrators cited by al-Bukhārī and others. He alone related this version, as al-Ṭabarānī himself noted.

This form of the iqāma was adopted by Ibn Ḥazm, and it is likewise the position of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and his son, Anas, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Makḥūl, al-Zuhrī, al-Awzāʿī, Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Abū Thawr, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Dāwūd, Ibn al-Munḏir, and others. Al-Baghawī said: