2/15. Chapter:
Sunan Abi Dawud 436 — Adhan for Missed Prayer
Whoever Sleeps Through The Prayer (Time) Or Forgets (To Pray)
Adhan for Missed Prayer: A Hadith on Making Up Fajr
Sunan Abi Dawud : 436
Sunan Abi DawudHadith Number 436
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ، حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، فِي هَذَا الْخَبَرِ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " تَحَوَّلُوا عَنْ مَكَانِكُمُ الَّذِي أَصَابَتْكُمْ فِيهِ الْغَفْلَةُ " . قَالَ فَأَمَرَ بِلاَلاً فَأَذَّنَ وَأَقَامَ وَصَلَّى . قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَاهُ مَالِكٌ وَسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ وَالأَوْزَاعِيُّ وَعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ وَابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمُ الأَذَانَ فِي حَدِيثِ الزُّهْرِيِّ هَذَا وَلَمْ يُسْنِدْهُ مِنْهُمُ إِلاَّ الأَوْزَاعِيُّ وَأَبَانُ الْعَطَّارُ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ .
Abu Hurairah Narrated from:
Another version of the above tradition adds: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Go away from this place of yours where inadvertence took hold of you. He then commanded Bilal who called for prayer and announced that the prayer in congregation was ready (i.e. he uttered the iqamah) and he observed prayer.Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by Malik, Sufyan b. 'Uyainah, al-Awza'i, and 'Abd al-Razzaq from Ma'mar and Ibn Ishaq, none of them made a mention of the call for prayer (adman) in this version of the tradition narrated by al-Zuhri, and none of them attribute (this tradition) to him except al-Awza'i and Aban al-'Attar on the authority of Ma'mar.
Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 436In-book reference : Book 2, Hadith 46English translation : Book 2, Hadith 436
Summary of Sunan Abi Dawud Hadith 436
This Hadith is another version of the same missed Fajr event. It adds that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم told them to move away from the place where inadvertence had taken hold of them. Then he commanded Bilal, who called the Adhan and gave the Iqamah, and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم prayed. The report also includes Abu Dawud’s note about narrators and whether the Adhan was mentioned in this version. The core teaching from the narrated event is simple: after missing the prayer due to sleep, they did not ignore it. They moved, called the prayer according to this version, and prayed. The Hadith is useful for searches about Adhan for missed prayer and making up Fajr.
What we learn from this hadith
- The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told them to move from the place where heedlessness affected them.
- In this version, Bilal called Adhan and Iqamah for the missed prayer.
- The prayer was performed after they woke and took action.
