Assalamo Alikum, I have a question about Adan. I go to a musallah which is managed by a very good person and he takes very good care of that. He is also immam there and leads five times of prayers. There is no fixed moazzan there and anybody who comes first do the Aazan. But when immam sb comes he also tries to give azan even somebody else want to do that and he came first. So who has more right to make azan,one who came first or immam sb. who came later. Also, as being immam does he has more rights to be moazzan or not. Thanks
Answer
(Fatwa: 903/903=M/1430)
If the imam was assigned to call azan along with imamah (leading prayer), he has more right to call the azan. If he is asked to lead the salah only and there is no regular muezzin appointed, then anyone who comes first can call the azan provided he wears Islamic complexion and can correctly pronounce the azan. There is no need for the imam to re-call the azan. But, if someone called the azan in advance of time, it will be repeated when the due time will occur.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband