Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5395 — Speaking while letters are read out

Ibn Awn said: While the muezzins were giving the call to prayer for Jumu'ah and the imam had already come out, I met Hammad bin Abi Sulayman. He spoke to me, but I did not speak to him. Then we met again on another Friday, and while the official letters were being read out he spoke to me; he kept speaking to me, but I remained silent. At this he said to me: "O my nephew, silence used to be (observed) in the past only when they admonished with the Book of Allah Almighty and spoke about it. Should we keep silent for these letters of theirs?!" Ibn Awn said: I mentioned this to Ibrahim, and he said: "Satan comes to one of them with anxious thoughts, or through his own self. Silence used to be (observed) in the past only when they admonished with the Book of Allah and spoke about it."