{"id":1404,"date":"2019-06-24T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2019-06-24T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:36:24","slug":"can-a-female-call-out-the-azaan-in-the-ear-of-the-baby-at-the-time-of-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Can a female call out the Azaan in the ear of the baby at the time of birth?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can a female call out the Azaan in the ear of the baby at the time of birth?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Salaam. Please can you advise if a female can give the azaan into a baby\u2019s ear once they are born or does it have to be a male? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is Sunnah to recite the Azaan and Iqaamah in the ear of a new-born baby.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Ubaidullah bin Abi Rafi&#8217; narrates that his father said: &#8220;I saw Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam say the Adhan in the ear of Al-Hasan bin &#8216;Ali &#8211; when he was born to Fatimah &#8211; the Adhan of Salat.&#8221; <\/em><strong>(Tirmidhi)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>male<\/strong> should recite the Azaan and Iqaamah in the ear of the baby<strong>.<\/strong> However, if there are no males present or available, then it will be permissible for a <strong>female<\/strong> to recite the Azaan and Iqaamah in the ear of the baby. In this case, the mother of the new-born baby may also recite the Azaan and Iqaamah in the ear of the new born baby on condition that she is not in the state of Nifaas (post-natal bleeding). <strong>(Fataawa Mahmoodiyya 5\/455)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a female call out the Azaan in the ear of the baby at the time of birth?\u00a0 Q. Salaam. Please can you advise if a<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-taharah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}