was delivered in front of the pulpit, close to it. Al-ʿAllāmah al-Kashmīrī¹ said:
‘I have found no evidence within the four legal schools for giving this adhān inside the mosque except what the author of al-Hidāyah cited: that it has been perpetuated by continuous practice, and that others have likewise transmitted it. From this I understood that they possess no proof beyond what the author of al-Hidāyah reported, and for that reason they fall back on inherited practice.’
I say: It is plain to any discerning reader that such inherited practice is of no value for two reasons:
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It conflicts with the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ and the practice of the Rightly Guided Caliphs after him;
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Its origin dates to the era of Hishām and not to that of the Companions, as has already been explained. Ibn ʿĀbidīn states in his marginalia (1/769):