The Rites of Hajj (Kitab Al-Manasik Wa'l-Hajj)

Muhammad ibn Kathir informed us; Sufyan informed us, who said: Salamah ibn Kuhayl narrated to me, from al-Hasan al-Urani, from Ibn Abbas, who said: On the night at al-Muzdalifah, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us—the young boys of Banu Abd al-Muttalib—ahead on small donkeys. He gently patted our thighs and said: My little ones, do not stone the Jamrah until the sun rises. Abu Dawud said: ‘Lath’ means a gentle tap.

Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Uqbah narrated to us; Hamzah al-Zayyat narrated to us, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Ata, from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to send the weak members of his family ahead in the darkness and instruct them not to stone the Jamrahs until sunrise.

Harun ibn Abd Allah narrated to us; Ibn Abi Fudayk narrated to us, from al-Dahhak—meaning Ibn Uthman—from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, from Aishah, who said: On the night of sacrifice, the Prophet (ﷺ) sent Umm Salamah ahead. She stoned the Jamrah before dawn, then went on and performed the circumambulation of arrival. That was the day the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would spend with her.

Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Bahili narrated to us; Yahya narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: Ata informed me; an informant informed him, from Asma’, that she stoned the Jamrah at night. I said: We stoned the Jamrah at night. She said: We used to do this in the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us; Abu al-Zubayr narrated to me, from Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) departed calmly and instructed them to throw pebbles the size of those used for flicking. He urged his mount onward in the valley of Muhassir.

Mu’ammal ibn al-Fadl narrated to us; al-Walid narrated to us; Hisham—meaning Ibn al-Ghaz—narrated to us; Nafi‘ narrated to us, from Ibn Umar, that on the Day of Sacrifice, during the Hajj he performed, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood between the Jamrahs and asked: What day is this? They said: The Day of Sacrifice. He said: This is the day of the Greater Hajj.

Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Faris narrated to us; al-Hakam ibn Nafi‘ narrated to them; Shu‘ayb narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, who said: Humayd ibn Abd al-Rahman informed me that Abu Hurayrah said: Abu Bakr sent me among those who proclaimed at Mina on the Day of Sacrifice: No polytheist may perform Hajj after this year, and no one may circumambulate the House naked. The day of the Greater Hajj is the Day of Sacrifice, and the Greater Hajj is Hajj.

Musaddad narrated to us; Isma‘il narrated to us; Ayyub narrated to us, from Muhammad, from Ibn Abi Bakrah, from Abu Bakrah, that the Prophet (ﷺ) delivered a sermon during his Hajj, saying: Time has returned to its original order, as it was on the day Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year has twelve months, four of them sacred: three consecutive months, Dhu al-Qa‘dah, Dhu al-Hijjah, and al-Muharram, and Rajab of Mudar, between Jumada and Sha‘ban.

Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Fayyad narrated to us; Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us; Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Sirin, from Ibn Abi Bakrah, from Abu Bakrah, from the Prophet (ﷺ), with the same meaning. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Awn identified the narrator, saying: from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakrah, from Abu Bakrah, in this report.

Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us; Bukayr ibn Ata narrated to me, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Ya‘mar al-Dayli, who said: I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) at ‘Arafah. Some people—or a group—from Najd came and asked a man to call out to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): What is Hajj? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered a man to call out: Hajj is ‘Arafah. Whoever arrives before the dawn prayer on the night at al-Jam‘ has completed Hajj. The days at Mina are three; whoever departs after two days bears no sin, and whoever stays longer bears no sin. The Prophet then took a man behind him on his mount, and he called this out. Abu Dawud said: Mihran likewise narrated it from Sufyan, saying ‘Hajj, Hajj’ twice, while Yahya ibn Sa‘id al-Qattan narrated from Sufyan ‘Hajj’ once.

Musaddad narrated to us; Yahya narrated to us, from Isma‘il, who said: Amir narrated to us; Urwah ibn Mudarris al-Ta’i informed me: I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at the standing place—meaning al-Jam‘—and said: Messenger of Allah, I have come from the mountains of Tayy. I have exhausted my mount and worn myself out. By Allah, I left no mountain without stopping on it. Is my Hajj complete? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Whoever joins us for this prayer and had come to ‘Arafat before that, by night or day, has completed his Hajj and fulfilled his rites.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us; Abd al-Razzaq informed us; Ma‘mar narrated to us, from Humayd al-A‘raj, from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu‘adh, from a man among the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ), who said: The Prophet (ﷺ) addressed the people at Mina and assigned them their camps. He said: Let the Emigrants camp here, pointing to the right of the qiblah, and the Helpers here, pointing to its left; then let the people camp around them.

Muhammad ibn al-A‘la narrated to us; Ibn al-Mubarak narrated to us, from Ibrahim ibn Nafi‘, from Ibn Abi Najih, from his father, from two men of Banu Bakr, who said: We saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) address the people in the middle of the Days of Tashriq, while we were by his riding animal. This was the sermon he delivered at Mina.

Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us; Abu Asim narrated to us; Rabi‘ah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Hisn narrated to us; my grandmother Sarra’ bint Nabhan narrated to me—she had been a household mistress in the pre-Islamic period—who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) addressed us on the Day of the Heads and asked: What day is this? We replied: Allah and His Messenger know best. He said: Is it not the middle of the Days of Tashriq? Abu Dawud said: The uncle of Abu Hurrah al-Raqashi likewise said that he delivered a sermon in the middle of the Days of Tashriq.

Harun ibn Abd Allah narrated to us; Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik narrated to us; Ikrimah narrated to us; al-Hirmas ibn Ziyad al-Bahili narrated to me, who said: I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) addressing the people from his she-camel al-Adba’ on the Day of Sacrifice at Mina.

Mu’ammal—meaning Ibn al-Fadl al-Harrani—narrated to us; al-Walid narrated to us; Ibn Jabir narrated to us; Sulaym ibn Amir al-Kala‘i narrated to us: I heard Abu Umamah say: I heard the Messenger of Allah’s (ﷺ) sermon at Mina on the Day of Sacrifice.

Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahim al-Dimashqi narrated to us; Marwan narrated to us, from Hilal ibn Amir al-Muzani, who said: Rafi‘ ibn Amr al-Muzani narrated to me: I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) addressing the people at Mina in the forenoon on a gray-white mule. Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was interpreting his words for them, while some people sat and others stood.

Musaddad narrated to us; Abd al-Warith narrated to us, from Humayd al-A‘raj, from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu‘adh al-Taymi, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) addressed us at Mina. Our ears were opened, and we could hear him from our camps. He began teaching them the rites until he reached the stoning of the Jamrahs. He put his two index fingers in his ears and said: Pebbles small enough to flick. Then he ordered the Emigrants to camp at the front of the mosque and the Helpers behind the mosque; afterward the other people camped.

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Bahili narrated to us; Yahya narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: Hariz—or Abu Hariz; Yahya was uncertain—told me that he heard Abd al-Rahman ibn Farrukh ask Ibn Umar: We trade in people’s property, and one of us comes to Mecca and spends the night there with the goods. He replied: As for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), he spent the night at Mina and stayed there by day.

Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Ibn Numayr and Abu Usamah narrated to us, from Ubayd Allah, from Nafi‘, from Ibn Umar, who said: Al-Abbas asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for permission to spend the nights of Mina in Mecca because he was providing water, and he granted him permission.