Is it permissible if I read adhan and iqamah silently, without moving my lips, when I perform missed (qada) prayers at home?
Is it permissible if I read adhan and iqamah silently, without moving my lips, when I perform missed (qada) prayers at home?
Dear Brother / Sister,
They (adhan and iqamah) are Sunnah, not fard. The way of calling them in accordance with the Sunnah is to call them at least with a voice that the person who calls it himself can hear it. The prayer is valid even if it is not read (called) at all.
It is more virtuous to call both adhan and iqamah in fard prayers that are performed alone at home or in the countryside. However, adhan can be abandoned; only iqamah is enough. It is makruh to abandon iqamah and to call only adhan.
The following hadith is reported from Salman regarding the issue:
“If a person is alone in a deserted place and if the time period for a prayer starts, he should make wudu. If he calls iqamah only, two angels will perform the prayer with him. If he calls both adhan and iqamah, a big congregation from divine armies whose ends cannot be seen will perform the prayer with him.”
• Is it necessary to call adhan and iqamah for each missed prayer when a person performs more than one missed prayer?
• If more than one missed prayer is performed in different places, adhan and iqamah are necessary for each one. If they are performed in the same place, it is more virtuous to call adhan and iqamah for each one but it is enough if a person calls both adhan and iqamah for the first one and only iqamah for the others.
(Mehmed Dikmen, İslam İlmihali, p. 295)
Questions on Islam
- Is it necessary to call adhan while performing a prayer at home?
- Can a woman call adhan and iqamah? Is it necessary for women to call iqamah before fard prayers (performed on time or missed)?
- Is a missed (qada) prayer performed before the fard prayer of the time and is it performed in order?
- Is it permissible for a person or a congregation that will perform a prayer in a mosque where adhan and iqamah are called afterwards for the same prayer? Is it necessary for five daily prayers to be performed in this mosque?
- When and how are the missed (qada) prayers performed? Are the sunnah prayers performed as well?
- Can a woman act as a muezzin when she performs a prayer in congregation with her husband?
- Can missed (qada) prayers be performed after the fards of the morning (fajr) and afternoon (asr) prayers? In an article I read, it is stated that it is makruh to perform nafilah prayers after the morning and afternoon prayers.
- What is the decree about missed (qada) prayers? When and how are they performed? How should one say niyyah (intention) for them?
- How is intention made for qada (missed) prayers? If a person does not know how many prayers he has missed, what should he do?
- How should adhan be called? What are the manners of calling adhan? Did the Prophet (pbuh) give any advice to those calling adhan about how to call it?
