504 — Al-Nufayli narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn Isma‘il ibn ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Mahdhurah narrated to us, saying: I heard my grandfather ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Mahdhurah mention that he heard Abu Mahdhurah say: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, dictated the call to prayer (adhan) to me word by word: Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar; ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah, ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah; ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasulu Allah, ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasulu Allah; ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah, ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah; ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasulu Allah, ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasulu Allah; hayya ‘ala al-salah, hayya ‘ala al-salah; hayya ‘ala al-falah, hayya ‘ala al-falah. And he would say in the dawn prayer (fajr): al-salah khayrun min al-nawm (prayer is better than sleep).

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It is also in *Musnad Ahmad* (15381).
Al-Tirmidhi (189) and al-Nasa’i in *al-Mujtaba* (629) also recorded it via the route of Ibrahim ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Mahdhurah, from his father and his grandfather, from Abu Mahdhurah. Al-Tirmidhi said: The hadith of Abu Mahdhurah concerning the adhan is authentic (sahih), and it has been transmitted from him through multiple routes, and it is the practice followed in Mecca, and it is the opinion of al-Shafi‘i.

(1) The hadith is authentic (sahih) through its multiple routes, but this chain of transmission is weak due to the unknown status of Ibrahim ibn Isma‘il ibn ‘Abd al-Malik, for only ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Nufayli narrated from him, and no one declared him trustworthy.
Al-Nasa’i also recorded in *al-Kubra* (1623) and (1624) via the route of Sufyan al-Thawri, from Abu Ja‘far al-Farra’, from Abu Salman, from Abu Mahdhurah, who said: I used to give the call to prayer for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in the first dawn call: hayya ‘ala al-salah, hayya ‘ala al-falah, al-salah khayrun min al-nawm, al-salah khayrun min al-nawm, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaha illa Allah.
It is also in *Musnad Ahmad* (15378), and Abu Salman the mu’adhdhin — no more than two narrators are known to have narrated from him, and no one declared him trustworthy.
And see the preceding hadiths of this chapter before it.