The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted to the same effect by by Al Zuhri with a different chain of narrators beginning with Ibn Hanbal on the authority of Hammad. This version adds “With an iqamah for every prayer, he did not call adhan for the first prayer and he did not offer supererogatory prayer after any of them. The narrator Makhlad said “He did not call adhan for any of them. ”
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Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
1928. Commentary: Allamah al-Albani rahimahullah says that this narration is authentic. However, the words (lam yunad...) are not correct, because the call to prayer (adhan) was indeed given once; therefore, the negation of the adhan is not correct.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 1928