Can women do the Adhaan (the call to prayer)
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I've found this, but u can also check in the website islamqa.com
Women calling the Aadhaan
Question:
Is it legislated for the woman to call the Aadhaan (call to prayer)?
Answer:
A- It is not legislated, rather upon her is to call the iqaamah, this is due to the voice of the woman being a fitnah and Allaah The Mighty and Majestic says: ((…then do not be softly spoken lest it causes allure in whose heart there is a sickness…)) (Soorah Al-Ahzaab: 32) and those who say it is legislated are Ash-Shawkaanee and Muhammad Siddeeq Hasan Khan, and they both said: “the foundation is the generality of the legislation” but that which is correct is that it is not legislated for the woman.
Shaykh Muqbil bin Haadee
Ghaaratul ashritah, 'alaa ahlil jahl was-safsatah, volume 2, page 488
Translated by Aboo Haatim Muhammad Farooq
I've found this, but u can also check in the website islamqa.com
Women calling the Aadhaan
Question:
Is it legislated for the woman to call the Aadhaan (call to prayer)?
Answer:
A- It is not legislated, rather upon her is to call the iqaamah, this is due to the voice of the woman being a fitnah and Allaah The Mighty and Majestic says: ((…then do not be softly spoken lest it causes allure in whose heart there is a sickness…)) (Soorah Al-Ahzaab: 32) and those who say it is legislated are Ash-Shawkaanee and Muhammad Siddeeq Hasan Khan, and they both said: “the foundation is the generality of the legislation” but that which is correct is that it is not legislated for the woman.
Shaykh Muqbil bin Haadee
Ghaaratul ashritah, 'alaa ahlil jahl was-safsatah, volume 2, page 488
Translated by Aboo Haatim Muhammad Farooq
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A womens voice is more beautiful in pitch when singing then males i think....
it would be cool to hear a women reciting the quran and reciting adhaan.
but a women singing is a form of bidaah and therefore may Alaah(swt) grant us refuge from it.
it would be cool to hear a women reciting the quran and reciting adhaan.
but a women singing is a form of bidaah and therefore may Alaah(swt) grant us refuge from it.
Aminah 4 Allah
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Assalamu Akaikum Sulikha,
Bismillah Alrahman Alrahim. In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Benificient.
Inshallah I will be able to bring light to your question regarding women reciting the Adhan in the home. This issue closely pertains to other issues regarding women and prayer so I will provide you with an article I find very helpful in this area. I am very interested in women's right under sharia law so this issue really hits home for me and inshallah you will find my response helpful.
According to the general consensus of jurists, a woman is not allowed to lead men in a Mosque or congregation. She is, however, allowed to lead a congregation consisting only of women. In the latter case, it is not only permitted for women to do so, rather it may even be considered highly recommended because of the greater rewards of praying in congregation as compared to praying individually.
Dr. Ahmed Shleibak, Dean of Academic Affairs at the American Islamic University, member of the Muslim Assembly of Jurists in America, and member of the Fiqh Council of North America, states:
We as Muslims have to follow the practice and guidance of the Prophert Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), as Allah ordered and commanded us to do: "O ye who believe, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you. And if you are in dispute over any matter, refer it to Allah and his Messenger if you are actually believers in Allah and the last day. That is better for you and more seemly in the end" (An-Nisa' 4:59).
Almighty Allah also says: "It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and his Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any opinion in their decision. And whosoever disobeys Allah and his Messenger he has indeed strayed into a plain error" (Al-Ahzab 33:36).
Allah Almighty says: "And whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it and whatsoever he forbids you abstain (from it). And fear Allah, verily, Allah is severe in punishment" (Al-Hashr 59:7).
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever commits an act that does not conform to our matter (religion), then it will be rejected of him."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have left among you two matters, that if you adhere to them, you will never be misguided: The Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet."
He (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "All of my nation will enter paradise except those who refuse." His Companions asked: "Who would refuse?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) answered: "Whoever obeys me will enter paradise, and whoever disobeys me has refused (to enter Paradise)."
All these verses and hadiths emphasize the path and guidance of Allah swt and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) if we want to have Allah's swt peace and blessings in this life and the Hereafter.
It is allowed for a woman to lead women in prayer, regardless of whether it is a fard (obligatory) or nafl (supererogatory) prayer. But it is not permissible for a woman to lead men in the prayer. This is the opinion of the four schools of fiqh and the seven jurists of Madinah among the Tabi' in (Successors) and then those who followed them.
This is due to the following reasons:
1. If it is permitted by Allah swt or His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), then such permission would have been transmitted from the first generation of Islam.
2. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) never said to a woman or chose a woman to lead prayers in the mosque during the enitre 16 years between the prescription of Prayer in Makkah and his death in Madinah. He could have chosen 'A'ishah, the Mother of the Believers, or Fatimah, the master of the women of Jannah (Paradise), to lead the Prayers in his mosque, even just one time to show us that this is acceptable, especially that his mosque was part of his home. Also, his Companions and their followers did not do this either, showing that it is not permissible for a woman to lead the prayer at the mosque.
3. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No nation shall succeed that is led by a woman" (Al Bukhari and Muslim). This is even more binding in Prayer, since the imamate of Prayer requires a far more slavish imitation and following than the greater imamate.
4. The known practice in prayer is that women should stand behind men; therefore it is obvious that their being at the front is not permitted.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Keep them (women) behind insofar as Allah has kept them behind."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best of the men's rows is the first, and the worst is the last; and the best of the women's rows is the last and the worst is the first" (Muslim). The last rows are the best for women because they are further away from the men as against the first rows that are nearest to the men. This explicitly states that if women are in the front they are in the worst position to pray. So how can she be delivering the khutbah (sermon) facing the worshipers and then praying ahead of even the first row of men?
Narrated Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed and an orphan and I prayed behind him and Umm Sulaim (may Allah be pleased with her) was behind us" (agreed upon).
5. It is better for women to pray in their houses than to attend congregational Prayer, even though it is permissible for them to attend the mosque. And it is not right that the leader of the Prayer be precluded from such excellence to being with.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not prevent women from going to the mosques, although their houses are better for them."
Umm Humaid As-Sa' diyyah came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, I love to pray with you." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am aware of that, but your prayer in your residence is better for you than your Prayer in the larger congregational mosques. And your Prayer in your people's mosque is better for you than your Prayer in the larger congreational mosque." In this hadith the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged the women to pray in their houses because it is better for them, and whatever the Prophet chose for his Ummah is the best for them, because the source of the Prophetic knowledge is divine, and it is free from all kinds of error. It is better for women to pray at home than lead the Prayer in the mosque which would not be permissible.
6. 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "A woman does not lead as imam."
7. It is not allowed for anyone to make the Adhan or Iqamah except a Muslim male who is adult and sane, who can pronounce the letters of the Adhan and Iqamah properly. And proof for that is that women were never asked to make Adhan for men. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said addressing his male companions: "If you start Prayer, one of you should make the Adhan, and the oldest male of you or your most versed in the Qur'an should be your imam." So if the woman is not allowed to make the Adhan for the Iqamah, how can we say she is allowed to lead the prayer?
8. The hadith of Umm Waraqah does not have a clear indication of whether women can lead the men in prayer at the mosque. 'Uthman ibn Abi Shaibah said: Waki' told us, Al -Walid ibn 'Abdullah told us that his grandmother told him and 'Abdur-Rahman ibn Khalid Al-Ansari about Umm Waraqah that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) carried out the battle of Badr she said: "Would you allow me to go with you so that I take care of the wounded and look after the sick? Perhaps Allah will grant me the bouty of martyrdom." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stay in your home. Allah will grant you martyrdom status." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to call her "the martyr." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then ordered her to lead the Prayers at her home. She used to have a muezzin to call the Adhan for her, and she used to lead her family until a slave boy of hers and a female slave killed her. We can conclude the following from this hadith:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) explicitly told her to stay home and not even to go out to the mosque to pray. How can this be seen as evidence for women to go out and lead Prayers in a mosque? He (peace and blessings be upon him) could have asked her to go to the mosque and be the imam(ah). Instead, he (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed her to stay home.
Scholars of usul al-fiqh call the explicit meaning of the text "zhahir," which is the meaning that is explicitly mentioned in text even if the text is not specifically stated for it. The nass of a text is what the text was specifically intended and stated for. Nass is stronger that zhahir and has to be considered before it in the case where the meaning appears to conflict. In this hadith, staying home is nass, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was explicitly answering a request to go out to war.
The claim that this hadith proves that women can be imams is unsubstantiated, as the meaning is not zhahir of the text; that is, no word in the text states that women can be imams in mosques and that men can pray behind them. This is an implicit meaning much lower in consideration to both zhahir and nass and has to be considered in consolidation with other evidence of Shari'ah.
Al-Qurtubi said: "Ash-Shafi' i said a man who prays behind a woman has to repeat the Prayer. Abu Thawr said, no he does not have to repeat it (this does not mean that it can take place in the first place, it only means that if it happens by mistake he does not have to repeat it). Our scholars consented upon the ruling that women cannot lead Prayers, not even for other women. They look at the hadith of Um Waraqah as a special case that stands alone, specific to her status as a living martyr, so she was ordered to stay home and lead her family in Prayers...not other people.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her only to lead the members of her household in Prayer, but he did not order her to lead Prayer in the mosque. If it had been permissible for her to do that, or she had understood that from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), then she would have done that to show us that it is permissible for women to lead Prayer in the mosque.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) allowed Umm Waraqah (may Allah be pleased with her) to lead the women of her household in Prayer as ibn Qudamah said in Al-Mughni, just as 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) used to lead women in Prayer and stand with the women in the middle of the first row. Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) would also do so.
From all of the above it becomes very clear that it is not permissible for a woman to lead prayer in the mosque. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A woman may not be an imam, and a wicked sinner may not be imam for the believers, except if he has overpowered him with authority, or he fears the whip or sword of the latter." Even though the hadith is weak, the majority act according to it's implicaiton.
So the just of all this is that as women cannot lead men in prayer in the mosque or otherwise it is not permissible for a woman to recite the Adhan when men are present. A woman is permitted to recite the Adhan if only women are present and she is to lead them in prayer as Umm Waraqah, 'A'ishah and Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with them all) would do standing in the middle of the first row.
But Allah swt knows best.
Wassalam,
Aminah
Bismillah Alrahman Alrahim. In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Benificient.
Inshallah I will be able to bring light to your question regarding women reciting the Adhan in the home. This issue closely pertains to other issues regarding women and prayer so I will provide you with an article I find very helpful in this area. I am very interested in women's right under sharia law so this issue really hits home for me and inshallah you will find my response helpful.
According to the general consensus of jurists, a woman is not allowed to lead men in a Mosque or congregation. She is, however, allowed to lead a congregation consisting only of women. In the latter case, it is not only permitted for women to do so, rather it may even be considered highly recommended because of the greater rewards of praying in congregation as compared to praying individually.
Dr. Ahmed Shleibak, Dean of Academic Affairs at the American Islamic University, member of the Muslim Assembly of Jurists in America, and member of the Fiqh Council of North America, states:
We as Muslims have to follow the practice and guidance of the Prophert Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), as Allah ordered and commanded us to do: "O ye who believe, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you. And if you are in dispute over any matter, refer it to Allah and his Messenger if you are actually believers in Allah and the last day. That is better for you and more seemly in the end" (An-Nisa' 4:59).
Almighty Allah also says: "It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and his Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any opinion in their decision. And whosoever disobeys Allah and his Messenger he has indeed strayed into a plain error" (Al-Ahzab 33:36).
Allah Almighty says: "And whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it and whatsoever he forbids you abstain (from it). And fear Allah, verily, Allah is severe in punishment" (Al-Hashr 59:7).
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever commits an act that does not conform to our matter (religion), then it will be rejected of him."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have left among you two matters, that if you adhere to them, you will never be misguided: The Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet."
He (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "All of my nation will enter paradise except those who refuse." His Companions asked: "Who would refuse?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) answered: "Whoever obeys me will enter paradise, and whoever disobeys me has refused (to enter Paradise)."
All these verses and hadiths emphasize the path and guidance of Allah swt and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) if we want to have Allah's swt peace and blessings in this life and the Hereafter.
It is allowed for a woman to lead women in prayer, regardless of whether it is a fard (obligatory) or nafl (supererogatory) prayer. But it is not permissible for a woman to lead men in the prayer. This is the opinion of the four schools of fiqh and the seven jurists of Madinah among the Tabi' in (Successors) and then those who followed them.
This is due to the following reasons:
1. If it is permitted by Allah swt or His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), then such permission would have been transmitted from the first generation of Islam.
2. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) never said to a woman or chose a woman to lead prayers in the mosque during the enitre 16 years between the prescription of Prayer in Makkah and his death in Madinah. He could have chosen 'A'ishah, the Mother of the Believers, or Fatimah, the master of the women of Jannah (Paradise), to lead the Prayers in his mosque, even just one time to show us that this is acceptable, especially that his mosque was part of his home. Also, his Companions and their followers did not do this either, showing that it is not permissible for a woman to lead the prayer at the mosque.
3. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No nation shall succeed that is led by a woman" (Al Bukhari and Muslim). This is even more binding in Prayer, since the imamate of Prayer requires a far more slavish imitation and following than the greater imamate.
4. The known practice in prayer is that women should stand behind men; therefore it is obvious that their being at the front is not permitted.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Keep them (women) behind insofar as Allah has kept them behind."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best of the men's rows is the first, and the worst is the last; and the best of the women's rows is the last and the worst is the first" (Muslim). The last rows are the best for women because they are further away from the men as against the first rows that are nearest to the men. This explicitly states that if women are in the front they are in the worst position to pray. So how can she be delivering the khutbah (sermon) facing the worshipers and then praying ahead of even the first row of men?
Narrated Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed and an orphan and I prayed behind him and Umm Sulaim (may Allah be pleased with her) was behind us" (agreed upon).
5. It is better for women to pray in their houses than to attend congregational Prayer, even though it is permissible for them to attend the mosque. And it is not right that the leader of the Prayer be precluded from such excellence to being with.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not prevent women from going to the mosques, although their houses are better for them."
Umm Humaid As-Sa' diyyah came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, I love to pray with you." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am aware of that, but your prayer in your residence is better for you than your Prayer in the larger congregational mosques. And your Prayer in your people's mosque is better for you than your Prayer in the larger congreational mosque." In this hadith the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged the women to pray in their houses because it is better for them, and whatever the Prophet chose for his Ummah is the best for them, because the source of the Prophetic knowledge is divine, and it is free from all kinds of error. It is better for women to pray at home than lead the Prayer in the mosque which would not be permissible.
6. 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "A woman does not lead as imam."
7. It is not allowed for anyone to make the Adhan or Iqamah except a Muslim male who is adult and sane, who can pronounce the letters of the Adhan and Iqamah properly. And proof for that is that women were never asked to make Adhan for men. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said addressing his male companions: "If you start Prayer, one of you should make the Adhan, and the oldest male of you or your most versed in the Qur'an should be your imam." So if the woman is not allowed to make the Adhan for the Iqamah, how can we say she is allowed to lead the prayer?
8. The hadith of Umm Waraqah does not have a clear indication of whether women can lead the men in prayer at the mosque. 'Uthman ibn Abi Shaibah said: Waki' told us, Al -Walid ibn 'Abdullah told us that his grandmother told him and 'Abdur-Rahman ibn Khalid Al-Ansari about Umm Waraqah that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) carried out the battle of Badr she said: "Would you allow me to go with you so that I take care of the wounded and look after the sick? Perhaps Allah will grant me the bouty of martyrdom." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stay in your home. Allah will grant you martyrdom status." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to call her "the martyr." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then ordered her to lead the Prayers at her home. She used to have a muezzin to call the Adhan for her, and she used to lead her family until a slave boy of hers and a female slave killed her. We can conclude the following from this hadith:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) explicitly told her to stay home and not even to go out to the mosque to pray. How can this be seen as evidence for women to go out and lead Prayers in a mosque? He (peace and blessings be upon him) could have asked her to go to the mosque and be the imam(ah). Instead, he (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed her to stay home.
Scholars of usul al-fiqh call the explicit meaning of the text "zhahir," which is the meaning that is explicitly mentioned in text even if the text is not specifically stated for it. The nass of a text is what the text was specifically intended and stated for. Nass is stronger that zhahir and has to be considered before it in the case where the meaning appears to conflict. In this hadith, staying home is nass, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was explicitly answering a request to go out to war.
The claim that this hadith proves that women can be imams is unsubstantiated, as the meaning is not zhahir of the text; that is, no word in the text states that women can be imams in mosques and that men can pray behind them. This is an implicit meaning much lower in consideration to both zhahir and nass and has to be considered in consolidation with other evidence of Shari'ah.
Al-Qurtubi said: "Ash-Shafi' i said a man who prays behind a woman has to repeat the Prayer. Abu Thawr said, no he does not have to repeat it (this does not mean that it can take place in the first place, it only means that if it happens by mistake he does not have to repeat it). Our scholars consented upon the ruling that women cannot lead Prayers, not even for other women. They look at the hadith of Um Waraqah as a special case that stands alone, specific to her status as a living martyr, so she was ordered to stay home and lead her family in Prayers...not other people.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her only to lead the members of her household in Prayer, but he did not order her to lead Prayer in the mosque. If it had been permissible for her to do that, or she had understood that from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), then she would have done that to show us that it is permissible for women to lead Prayer in the mosque.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) allowed Umm Waraqah (may Allah be pleased with her) to lead the women of her household in Prayer as ibn Qudamah said in Al-Mughni, just as 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) used to lead women in Prayer and stand with the women in the middle of the first row. Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) would also do so.
From all of the above it becomes very clear that it is not permissible for a woman to lead prayer in the mosque. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A woman may not be an imam, and a wicked sinner may not be imam for the believers, except if he has overpowered him with authority, or he fears the whip or sword of the latter." Even though the hadith is weak, the majority act according to it's implicaiton.
So the just of all this is that as women cannot lead men in prayer in the mosque or otherwise it is not permissible for a woman to recite the Adhan when men are present. A woman is permitted to recite the Adhan if only women are present and she is to lead them in prayer as Umm Waraqah, 'A'ishah and Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with them all) would do standing in the middle of the first row.
But Allah swt knows best.
Wassalam,
Aminah
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So the just of all this is that as women cannot lead men in prayer in the mosque or otherwise it is not permissible for a woman to recite the Adhan when men are present. A woman is permitted to recite the Adhan if only women are present and she is to lead them in prayer as Umm Waraqah, 'A'ishah and Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with them all) would do standing in the middle of the first row.
But Allah swt knows best.
Wassalam,
Aminah[/QUOTE]
salamu alaykum,
i am aware of women being able to lead other women in salah as well as call iqamah. However, i wonder where he got the proof of saying that it is permissible for a women to call athan infront other women? Just would like to know. barakallahu feekum and Takaballahu minna wa minkum , eid mubarek.
Assalamu alaykum
Muharram
So the just of all this is that as women cannot lead men in prayer in the mosque or otherwise it is not permissible for a woman to recite the Adhan when men are present. A woman is permitted to recite the Adhan if only women are present and she is to lead them in prayer as Umm Waraqah, 'A'ishah and Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with them all) would do standing in the middle of the first row.
But Allah swt knows best.
Wassalam,
Aminah
[/QUOTE]salamu alaykum,
i am aware of women being able to lead other women in salah as well as call iqamah. However, i wonder where he got the proof of saying that it is permissible for a women to call athan infront other women? Just would like to know. barakallahu feekum and Takaballahu minna wa minkum , eid mubarek.
Assalamu alaykum
Muharram
Basicofislam
sister
:salam2: If the gathering is WOMEN ONLY yes then a woman can give adhaan.
daleel plizz. barakallahu feek
Salam and Aid mabrouk
The big and the small adhaan are reserve for men only . al-Bukhârî in his Sahîh according to Asmâ' bt Yasid who said : I heard the Prophete (saw) said "There isn't for the women neither big or small adhaan"
So there is no wrong if women pray without doing the small adhaan
Answer by the Permanent Council of Research from the book "Collection of Fatawas concerning Women " french edition compiled and comment by 'Amr 'Abd al-Mun'in Salîm
And Allah knows Better
So no you are not allowed to do the adhan what you can do is go on this website www.islamicfinder.org and get a software that can play the adhan on time on your computer .
Salam
The big and the small adhaan are reserve for men only . al-Bukhârî in his Sahîh according to Asmâ' bt Yasid who said : I heard the Prophete (saw) said "There isn't for the women neither big or small adhaan"
So there is no wrong if women pray without doing the small adhaan
Answer by the Permanent Council of Research from the book "Collection of Fatawas concerning Women " french edition compiled and comment by 'Amr 'Abd al-Mun'in Salîm
And Allah knows Better
So no you are not allowed to do the adhan what you can do is go on this website www.islamicfinder.org and get a software that can play the adhan on time on your computer .
Salam