Not Responding to the Adhan – Narration Based on a Weak Chain
Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri
❖ Question:
What is the authenticity of the following narration?
❀ Narrated from Sayyiduna Abū Hurairah (RA):
من الجفاء أن تسمع المؤذن فلا تقول مثل ما يقول .
“It is from harshness (disloyalty) that you hear the mu’adhdhin and do not repeat what he says.”
(al-Duʿā’ by al-Ṭabarānī: 481)
❖ Answer:
The chain of narration is weak.
Hārūn ibn Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh is unanimously declared weak.
❀ Ḥāfiẓ al-Būṣīrī (رحمه الله) said:
قد اتفقوا على تضعيفه .
“The scholars of Hadith are unanimous on declaring Hārūn ibn Hārūn weak.”
(Miṣbāḥ al-Zujājah: 1/118)
Conclusion:This narration about it being “disloyalty” not to respond to the Adhan has a weak chain and cannot be relied upon as evidence.
