Responding to the Two Hay‘alas

Question

A doubt arises from one mas’ala in “Bihishti Zewar” (“Heavenly Ornaments”), vol. 1, in the chapter on answering the mu’adhdhin; kindly remove it. Hazrat Mawlana states: “Whatever word one hears from the mu’adhdhin’s tongue, one should say the same, except that in response to ‘Hayya ‘ala-s-salah’ and ‘Hayya ‘ala-l-falah’ one should also say ‘La hawla wa la quwwata illa bi-llah’.

Answer

In “Maraqi al-Falah” with the commentary of Tahtawi, p. 110, it is stated: [ar]وَاخْتَارَ الْمُحَقِّقُ فِي الْفَتْحِ الْجَمْعَ بَيْنَ الْحَيْعَلَةِ وَالْحَوْقَلَةِ عَمَلًا بِالْأَحَادِيثِ الْوَارِدَةِ وَجَمْعًا بَيْنَهُمَا[/ar] “The Muhaqqiq [Ibn al-Humam] in ‘al-Fath’ chose combining the hay‘ala and the hawqala, acting upon the hadiths that have been narrated and reconciling…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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