WE RELATE FROM the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī and others that Abū Rāfi‘
, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah
, reported: “I saw the Messenger of Allah
say the adhān for ṣalāh in the ear of Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī when Fāṭimah gave birth to him
.” [1].At-Tirmidhī says that this is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ hadith.
One group of our [Shāfi‘ī] colleagues say that it is mustaḥabb to say the adhān in the right ear and the iqāmah in the left ear.
And we relate from the book of Ibn as-Sunnī from al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī
that the Messenger of Allah
said: “Whoever has a child born to him, if he calls the adhān in his right ear and the iqāmah in his left, the mother of the child will not harm him.”
References
[1] Abū Dāwūd (5105) and at-Tirmidhī (1514).