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?
Submitted by on Sat, 07/07/2018 - 15:46
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
- When and how are the missed (qada) prayers performed? Are the sunnah prayers performed as well?
- 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?
- What is adhan?
- Is it permissible for a person who has not performed his missed prayers (qada) to perform tarawih prayer?
- When does the time period for the morning prayer (fajr) start and when does it end? Why is the adhan for the morning prayer called an hour after imsak time?
- Did the Prophet (pbuh) ever miss any prayers and perform qada (missed) prayers?
- If a person cannot wake up for the morning prayer (fajr), if he, say, gets up at 9 o’clock, how can he perform the morning prayer?
- It is said that there is no qada (missed) prayer in the Quran and hence there is no prayer called qada prayer. Is it true? Will you explain it with fiqh evidences?
- How many missed (qada) can be performed the most a day? If a person who did not perform salah for ten years wants to perform them as qada and performs a hundred missed prayers a day, are these salahs accepted?