Al-Muhamili also narrated it in al-Amali (211/197), through another chain from Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, with the wording: “He would cry it out loudly.” Its chain of transmission is weak.

Supporting the raising of the voice—whether in this remembrance or in another practice authentically reported from the Prophet ﷺ—is the statement of Ibn Abbas:

“The raising of voices in remembrance when people departed from the obligatory prayer took place in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, and when I heard it, I would know that they had departed.”

It was narrated by al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Awanah, and others, and is referenced in Sahih Sunan Abi Dawud (920–921). In one of their versions:

“I would know that the Prophet’s prayer had ended by the proclamation ‘Allah is Most Great.’”

I say: This version mentioning the proclamation “Allah is Most Great” was perhaps narrated according to meaning. The preserved wording is the one preceding it: “remembrance.” For despite their great number, none of the forms of remembrance reported in the two Sahih collections and elsewhere in the Sunan collections, Musnads, Muʿjams, and other works—of which al-Hafiz al-Tabarani gathered a great many in Jamiʿ Abwab al-Qawl fi Adbar al-Salawat, from his book al-Duʿa (2/1086–1136)—states that he ﷺ would proclaim “Allah is Most Great” after the obligatory prayer. This applies even to the remembrances he urged his community to recite after the prayers, except for a single hadith concerning the recitation of the verse: “Praise be to Allah, who has not taken a son …,” up to His saying: “and magnify Him with due magnificence” [17:111].

Al-Tabarani alone narrated it, and it is a rejected hadith, as I explained in al-Daʿifah (6317).

Moreover, the basic rule regarding remembrances is to lower one’s voice, as explicitly stated in the Quran and the Sunnah, except where an exception has been made—especially when raising the voice distracts someone who is praying or engaged in remembrance, and all the more so when it is done collectively, as they do in the tenfold recitations of the declaration of Allah’s oneness in