Words of Admonition After the Adhan

Question

In our locality, for many years now, on Friday in the mosque after the adhan the “salat” is called out, then everyone stands up for the sunna prayer; after that the mu’adhdhin takes a staff and, having recited “إِنَّ اللهَ…” or “لَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ…” or given some admonition in Urdu, hands that staff to the imam. Is this practice correct? If it is, then ascertain it from some reliable book of hadith.

Answer

This practice is found neither in the Holy Qur’an, nor in the noble hadith, nor in the accounts of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, nor in the events [of the lives] of the other noble Companions ﵃, nor in the fiqh of the mujtahid imams.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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