Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 533

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعَيْبُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا نَافِعٌ، عَنْ مُؤَذِّنٍ، لِعُمَرَ يُقَالُ لَهُ مَسْرُوحٌ أَذَّنَ قَبْلَ الصُّبْحِ فَأَمَرَهُ عُمَرُ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ أَنَّ مُؤَذِّنًا لِعُمَرَ يُقَالُ لَهُ مَسْرُوحٌ أَوْ غَيْرُهُ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَرَوَاهُ الدَّرَاوَرْدِيُّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ كَانَ لِعُمَرَ مُؤَذِّنٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ مَسْعُودٌ وَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ وَهَذَا أَصَحُّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ ‏.‏

Translation

Ayyub ibn Mansur narrated to us: Shuʿayb ibn Harb narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Abi Rawwad, who informed us, from Nafiʿ, that a caller to prayer belonging to ʿUmar, named Masruh, called before dawn. ʿUmar ordered him to do so, and he related a report of similar meaning. Abu Dawud said: Hammad ibn Zayd narrated it from ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, from Nafiʿ or someone else, that one of ʿUmar’s callers to prayer was called Masruh—or another name. Abu Dawud said: al-Darawardi narrated it from ʿUbayd Allah, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said that ʿUmar had a caller to prayer named Masʿud, and related a report of similar meaning. This is more authentic than that version.