ABSTRACT
There is basic agreement among the Sunni schools of Islamic law on the formulae for both the adhan and the iqama. According to these traditions, the adhan was essentially a call to the leader of the community to lead salat. Malik knew of the practice of greeting the amir and calling him in the adhan, and rejected it as not belonging to the early period of Islam. A great deal of uncertainty existed among the different jurists on the position of the formula used only in the morning and known by the term tathwib. The actual accounts of the introduction of the adhan demonstrate the developing attitude to its formulae. The earliest reports come from Ibn Isḥāaq and Malik. Clearly, 'Umar's position in the introduction of the adhan has been increased because he had been the authority for the form of the existing adhan.
