Hadith 111

(The book) ‘Al Ilal’ – from Abdul Wahid Bin Muhammad Bin Ubdous, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Quteyba, from Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan-asws about (the phrase) ‘Hasten to best of the deeds’, why is it left out from the Azaan? ’
He-asws said: ‘Do you want the apparent reason or the esoteric? ’
I said, ‘I want them both together’. He-asws said: ‘As for the apparent reason, it is lest people leave the Jihad relying (only) upon the Salat; and as for the esoteric, best of the deeds is the Wilayah, so the one who instructs with leaving out ‘Hasten to best of the deeds’ from the Azaan so that the urging would not fall upon it (Wilayah), and the calling to it’’. [175]
And from him, from Ali Bin Abdullah Al Warraq and Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan, from Sa’ad Bin Abdullah, from Al Abbas Bin Saeed Al Azraq, from Suweyd Bin Saeed Al Anbary, from Muhammad Bin Usman Al Jumahy, from Al Hakam Bin Aban, ‘From Ikrimah (Bin Abu Jahl-la) who said, ‘I said to Ibn Abbas, ‘Inform me, for which (reason) ‘Hasten to best of the deeds’ been deleted from the Azaan? ’
He said, ‘Umar wanted with that that the people should not rely upon the Salat and leave the Jihad, for that (reason), he deleted it from the Azaan’’. [176]