Studying the Way Adhān and Iqāma were Legitimized from the Sunnis Perspective and its Critique

The way adhan and iqama were legitimized is among major matters of disputes between Shi’ites and Sunnis. Considering the well-known Sunni perspective that adhan and iqama were legitimized through dream of a certain ‘Abd Allah b. Zayd in an unrevealed way, a question raises whether legitimization of divine precepts through intermediation of ordinary people is acceptable.
Discussing how adhan and iqama were legitimized from the Sunnis perspective and evaluating the proofs argued in this connection, the present essay comes to the conclusion that believing in an unrevealed cause for their legitimization is in opposition to both intellectual and narrative proofs. In addition to suffering inauthentic chains of transmission, the proofs argued for that claim are in explicit contradiction to one another.