Chapter 235

Saying the adhān in the ear of a newborn baby

Remembrance 1
WE RELATE FROM the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī and others that Abū Rāfi‘ Honorific symbol, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol, reported: “I saw the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol say the adhān for ṣalāh in the ear of Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī when Fāṭimah gave birth to him Honorific symbol.” [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 Honorific symbol that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol 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).