Al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd said: The adhān [which Allah mentions in the Qur’an] used to begin when the imam sat upon the pulpit [and the iqāmah was called] on Friday [at the door of the mosque] during the time of the Prophet ﷺ, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar. When ʿUthmān assumed the caliphate and the population had grown [and the dwellings lay farther apart], he ordered on a Friday that a third adhān be given—in another wording: the first, and in yet another: that a third call be made— [from a house of his in the marketplace called al-Zawrāʾ]. The mu’adhdhin therefore proclaimed it at al-Zawrāʾ [before ʿUthmān came out, so that the people would know that the Friday prayer had arrived]. This practice then remained in force [and the people did not censure him for it, even though they had criticized him when he performed the full prayer at Minā].