The call to prayer (adhān)

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Repeat what the muʾadhdhin says, except at these two calls, where one replies:

حَيَّ عَلَى الْفَلَاحِ، حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ

Hayya 'alal-falah, hayya 'alas-salah: la hawla wala quwwata illa billah

“Come to success,” “Come to prayer”: there is no might nor power except by Allah.

Source Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, The Book of Prayers — site no. 754 Ṣaḥīḥ · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 613 Ṣaḥīḥ · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 611 Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites al-Bukhārī 1/152; Muslim 1/288

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Said on hearing the muʾadhdhin's testimony of faith:

وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، رَضِيتُ بِاللَّهِ رَبًّا، وَبِمُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولًا، وَبِالْإِسْلَامِ دِينًا

Wa ana ashhadu an la ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, wa anna Muhammadan 'abduhu warasuluh, raditu billahi rabba, wabimuhammadin rasula, wabil-Islami dina

And I too bear witness that there is no deity except Allah alone, without partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. I am pleased with Allah as Lord, with Muhammad as Messenger, and with Islam as religion.

Source Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, The Book of Prayers — site no. 755 Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites Muslim 1/290; Ibn Khuzaymah 1/220

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The Prophet ﷺ said:

إِذَا سَمِعْتُمُ الْمُؤَذِّنَ فَقُولُوا مِثْلَ مَا يَقُولُ ثُمَّ صَلُّوا عَلَىَّ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَىَّ صَلاَةً صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ بِهَا عَشْرًا

Idha sami'tumul-mu'adhhina faqulu mithla ma yaqulu thumma sallu 'alayya fa innahu man salla 'alayya salatan sallallahu 'alayhi biha 'ashra

When you hear the muʾadhdhin, say what he says, then send blessings upon me, for whoever sends one blessing upon me, Allah sends ten upon him for it.

Source Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, The Book of Prayers — site no. 753 Ṣaḥīḥ · Sunan Abī Dāwūd 523 Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites Muslim 1/288

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اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ هَذِهِ الدَّعْوَةِ التَّامَّةِ، وَالصَّلَاةِ الْقَائِمَةِ، آتِ مُحَمَّدًا الْوَسِيلَةَ وَالْفَضِيلَةَ، وَابْعَثْهُ مَقَامًا مَحْمُودًا الَّذِي وَعَدْتَهُ، [إِنَّكَ لَا تُخْلِفُ الْمِيعَادَ]

Allahumma rabba hadhihid-da'watit-tammah, was-salatil-qa'imah, ati Muhammadan al-wasilata wal-fadilah, wab'athhu maqaman mahmudan al-ladhi wa'adtah, innaka la tukhliful-mi'ad

O Allah, Lord of this perfect call and of the prayer about to be established, grant Muhammad al-Wasīlah and pre-eminence, and raise him to the praiseworthy station that You have promised him. [Indeed, You do not break Your promise.]

Source Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 614 Ṣaḥīḥ · Sunan Abī Dāwūd 529 Ṣaḥīḥ · Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 211 Ṣaḥīḥ · Qur'an 3:194

Compiler cites al-Bukhārī 1/152; the words 'Indeed, You do not break Your promise' are an addition in al-Bayhaqī's narration (1/410) — Ibn Bāz: its chain is ḥasan; see Tuḥfat al-Akhyār, p. 38

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The Prophet ﷺ said:

لاَ يُرَدُّ الدُّعَاءُ بَيْنَ الأَذَانِ وَالإِقَامَةِ

La yuraddud-du'a'u baynal-adhani wal-iqamah

Supplication between the adhān and the iqāmah is not rejected.

Source Sunan Abī Dāwūd 521 Ṣaḥīḥ · Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 212 (similar wording) Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites at-Tirmidhī, Abū Dāwūd and Aḥmad; see Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl 1/262