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The history of the muezzin

Niki Gamm

If you live in a Muslim country, you hear the muezzin sounding the call to prayer five times a day. This is a tradition that extends back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The very first muezzin was a slave named Bilal ibn Rabah, the son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian mother (slave) who was born in Mecca in the late 6th century. Bilal was one of the earliest converts to Islam, but his owner tried to get him to renounce Islam by subjecting him to a series of torturous punishments. When his story became known, one of the Prophet’s followers, Abu Bakr, who later became the first caliph, bought him and set him free.

At about the same time, the number of people accepting Islam was growing. The number of prayers during a day seems initially to have been three, but later became five, but without clocks as we know them, the duty of praying together as a community was becoming difficult. One suggestion seen in a dream was to use a wooden clapper, a device found among the Christians; however, the man in the dream suggested the Muslims have som

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The Historical Figure of Bilal Bin Rabah Highlights Equality at the Core Of Transnational And Transracial Message Of Islam

By Fawaz Turki

May 29, 2019

Azan, the call summoning the faithful to prayer, delivered by a muezzin, has rang out from atop the minarets of mosques around the world for the last 15 centuries, ever since the Islamic commonwealth of nations began in the seventh century to spread its wings to the West an East — where, indeed, the twain did actually meet, and meet in a communal sense of reference and devout compliance to a shared faith.

At no time on the Muslim calendar does the Azan cohere Muslims together more than during Ramadan, when even unobservant or lax Muslims find themselves, through fasting and prayer, truly close to the divine in their lives. It is with the muezzin’s call to prayer, heralding the advent of dawn, that they begin their fast, and with it, at sunset, that they end it.

And here you cannot reflect on the genesis of Azan without evoking the name of Bilal Bin Rabah, or simply Bilal, as he is often referred to when his legacy

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Short Biography of Bilal Ibn Rabah (R.A.)

Bilal Ibn Rabah (R.A.) was the first Muezzin of Islam (Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret of a mosque five times a day). He was chosen as the first Muezzin by the Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.) himself. He is, generally, known as "BILAL HABASHI". Bilal (R.A.) was one of the most trusted and loyal companion of Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.).

His lineage and Early Life:

Bilal’s (R.A.) father was an Arab and his mother was an Abyssinian (Modern day Ethiopian). His father's name was Ribah and his mother’s name was Hamama. According to different Islamic historians, Bilal (R.A.) had a dark brown complexion with tall slim body and thick-hair. He had a Muslim brother named Khalid and a sister called Aqra.

There is difference of opinion about his date of birth. According to some scholars, Bilal (R.A.) was born 53 years before Hijra (570 AD) but according to some others, he was born about 43 years before Hijra (580 AD). He was brought up in Makkah.

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