What do muezzins recite before adhan?

[WanderingMuppet]

I'm traveling in the Middle East and noticed that a few minutes before adhan, muezzins recite something. The speaker quality is really bad so I usually can't hear or understand what they're saying, but someone said they usually recite something from the Quran. However, a few times it sounded like something else.

Can anyone help me understand what they usually say before adhan?

It confused a few new travelers who mistook it for maghrib adhan and began eating for iftar too early.

 

[ardianto]

Welcome to the forum.

Some muezzins recite salawat (praise for prophet Muhammad) before saying adhan. But actually prophet Muhammad himself never taught it.