Abstract

After searching the Six Books of the Prophetic Sunnah ,the following results can be summarized up:

1. Calling to prayer is a declaration of the prayer times by using specific utterances.
2.The caller should be fair and honest.
3. The caller should be spiritually clean while calling to prayer.
4. It is desirable for the caller to face Al-Qibbla and to be slow.
5. It is recommended for the caller to be endowed with eyesight ,yet it is possible for the blind to call for prayer.

6. The caller will get great reward from Allah for calling to prayer if he intends his calling for the sake of Allah.
7. No historical evidence proves the possibility of allowing women to call prayer and if it was possible, it would be permitted by the prophet Mohammad .
8. There is a disagreement among scientists over the payment to the caller; some of them say it is possible and others say no.
9. The meaning of Tathweeb, how and when it is said ( in the Dawn prayer) is also arrived at in this study.

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