He determined that and ordered people to announce it when calling the azan.

He determined that and ordered people to announce it when calling the azan. Many true traditions about this matter have been narrated from the infallible imams (s). The books of Hadith of other than the infallible imams (s) have had many such traditions. Malik mentioned in his Muwatta’: “Once the caller of azan came to Umar bin al-Khattab to announce the time of Fajr prayer and he found Umar sleeping.

He said to him: “Prayer is better than sleeping.” Umar admired that and ordered him to add it to the azan of Fajr.” Az-Zarqani said in his book Sharh al-Muwatta’[^2] when commenting on this word: “Ad-Darqutni mentioned this…