Abdulah helped Muhammad shape Islam with his وحي

As you may know, Muhammad is not the only prophet of Islam. In fact, many companions of the prophet helped Muhammad make sense of his religion.

Some of you already know that Umar wrote some verses of the Quran, and he’s also the man who came up with the idea of Hajj among the five pillars of Islam, the Veil and other things mistakenly attributed to allah, Jibril and Muhammad.

THE CALL TO PRAYER

The call to prayers is the brainchild of Abdulah.

« The Life Of Muhammad » by Ibn Ishaq.

When the apostle was firmly settled in Medina and his brethren the emigrants were gathered to him and the affairs of the helpers were arranged Islam became firmly established. Prayer was instituted, the alms tax and fasting were prescribed, legal punishments fixed, the forbidden and the permitted prescribed, and Islam took up its abode with them. It was this 347 clan of the helpers who ‘have taken up their abode (in the city of the prophet) and in the faith’.  When the apostle first came, the people gathered to him for prayer at the appointed times without being summoned. At first, the apostle thought of using a trumpet like that of the Jews who used it to summon to prayer. Afterwards, he disliked the idea and ordered a clapper to be made, so it was duly fashioned to be beaten when the Muslims should pray.

Meanwhile ‘Abdullah b. Zayd b. Tha’laba b. ‘Abdu Rabbihi brother of B. al-Harith heard a voice in a dream and came to the apostle saying:

A phantom visited me in the night. There passed by me a man wearing two green garments carrying a clapper in his hand, and I asked him to sell it to me. When he asked me what I wanted it for I told him that it was to summon people to prayer, whereupon he offered to show me a better way. It was to say thrice:

“Allah Akbar. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah I bear witness that Muhammad is the apostle of God. Come to prayer. Come to prayer. Come to divine service. Come to divine service. Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. There is no God but Allah.”

When the apostle was told of this he said that it was a true vision if God so willed it and that he should go with Bilal and communicate it to him so that he might call to prayer thus, for he had a more penetrating voice. When Bilal acted as muezzin Umar heard him in his house and came to the apostle dragging his cloak on the ground and saying that he had seen precisely the same vision.

The Life Of Muhammad, by Ibn Ishaq, page 236.

Muhammad is not the last prophet, there are also Abdullah and Umar to add to the list of prophets.