To recite Durood before and after Adhan

1. Some people say that itis Bid'ah (innovation) to read the Durood
Shareef before and after the Azaan.
2. The Ahle Sunnah Wal Jama'at believes that it is permissible to
recite the Durood Shareef before and after the Azaan. This is a
current practice in many of the Arab countries.
3. The following Quranic verse commands us to send Durood and Salaam
upon the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) and no specified
time has been set aside for this. Allah Ta'ala says: "O ye who
Believe! Send Durood and Salaams upon him in abundance." (Part 22,
Ruku 4)
4. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said that
when we hear the voice of the Mu'azzin, we should repeat whatever he
has said and then sendDurood Shareef upon him.He said that the person
who sends one Durood upon him, Allah Ta'ala willsend ten mercies upon
that person. (Sahih Muslim, Al-Qaulul Badi) In this Hadith Shareef,
proof is found here that the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi
wasallam) asked us to recite the Durood Shareef after the Azaan.
5. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said: "If,
when performing any good deed you do not commence with the praise of
Allah and send Durood upon me, then that deed is empty of blessings."
(Al Jaame Sagheer) Which Muslim is there who does not consider the
Azaan to be agood deed?
6. In fact it was Salahud'deen Ayubi (radi Allahu anhu) who gave the
command of Durood Shareef to be recited before and after the Azaan.
Hazrat Salahud'deen Ayubi (radi Allahu anhu) was a very great and
pious King who liberated the Baitul Muqaddas. Great Muhaqiqeen and
Muhaditheen made Du'as for him.
7. Hazrat Qaazi Iyaz (radi Allahu anhu) said that it ispermissible to
read Durood Shareef at the time of Azaan. He says,"And from among the
occassions on which Durood should be sent, one of them is at the
timeof remembering him (Prophet Muhammad sallal laahu alaihi
wasallam), when taking or writing his blessed name or at the time of
Azaan." (Shifa Shareef)
8. Hazrat Mulla Ali Qaari (radi Allahu anhu) in his book "Fathul
Mueen" says that Durood should not only be recited before Azaan, but
also before theIqaamah.
9. Sheikh Kabeer Bakari (radi Allahu anhu) has stated that it is
desirable to recite Salaatus Salaam before the Azaan and the Iqaamah.
10. Thus, to recite Durood Shareef before and after the Azaan is
totally permissible and those who follow this are the Ahle Sunnah Wal
Jama'at.