The Call of Bilâl and the Tears of Al-Shâm
It is reported that Bilâl – Allâh be pleased with him – never used to call the adhân for anyone after the death of Allâh’s Messenger
He wanted to go for al-jihâd but Abû Bakr didn’t want him to go.
So Bilâl said:
“If you freed me [when I was a slave] for Allâh’s pleasure, then let me go.”
So he went to Al-Shâm. When ‘Umar arrived in Al-Jâbiyah [during his Caliphate], the Muslims requested him to ask Bilâl to do the adhân for them, so ‘Umar asked him.
He called the adhân one day, and never were as many people heard crying as on that day, as they remembered the Prophet
It is said that the adhân of the people of Al-Shâm was taken from this adhân.
Al-Dhahabî, Siyar A’lâm Al-Nubalâ`, in his biography of Bilâl b. Abî Rabâh.
It is reported that Bilâl – Allâh be pleased with him – never used to call the adhân for anyone after the death of Allâh’s Messenger
He wanted to go for al-jihâd but Abû Bakr didn’t want him to go. So Bilâl said:
“If you freed me [when I was a slave] for Allâh’s pleasure, then let me go.”
So he went to Al-Shâm. When ‘Umar arrived in Al-Jâbiyah [during his Caliphate], the Muslims requested him to ask Bilâl to do the adhân for them, so ‘Umar asked him.
He called the adhân one day, and never were as many people heard crying as on that day, as they remembered the Prophet
It is said that the adhân of the people of Al-Shâm was taken from this adhân.
Al-Dhahabî, Siyar A’lâm Al-Nubalâ`, in his biography of Bilâl b. Abî Rabâh.