Chapters on Hajj Rituals

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥuddānī, from Abū Jaʿfar, from Umm Salamah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Pilgrimage is the striving of every weak person.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatādah, from ʿAzrah, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, heard a man saying: “Here I am, performing ḥajj on behalf of Shubrumah.” The Messenger of God asked: “Who is Shubrumah?” He said: “A relative of mine.” He asked: “Have you ever performed ḥajj?” He said: “No.” He said: “Perform this one for yourself, then perform ḥajj on behalf of Shubrumah.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Ṣanʿānī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Sufyān al-Thawrī informed us, from Sulaymān al-Shaybānī, from Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: A man came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: “May I perform ḥajj on behalf of my father?” He said: “Yes, perform ḥajj on behalf of your father; if you do not increase his good, you will not increase his harm.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us: ʿUthmān ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us, from his father, from Abū al-Ghawth ibn Ḥuṣayn, a man from al-Furʿ, who sought a ruling from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about the obligation of ḥajj that rested on his father, who had died without performing it. The Prophet said: “Perform ḥajj on behalf of your father.” The Prophet also said: “The same applies to a fast vowed by someone: it is made up on his behalf.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, both saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Sālim, from ʿAmr ibn Aws, from Abū Razīn al-ʿUqaylī, who came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: “Messenger of God, my father is an old man who cannot perform ḥajj or ʿumrah or travel.” He said: “Perform ḥajj and ʿumrah on behalf of your father.”

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Abū Marwān Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAyyāsh ibn Abī Rabīʿah al-Makhzūmī, from Ḥakīm ibn Ḥakīm ibn ʿAbbād ibn Ḥunayf al-Anṣārī, from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, that a woman from Khathʿam came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: “Messenger of God, my father is an aged man who has become senile, and the obligation of God upon His servants to perform ḥajj has become due for him, but he cannot fulfill it. Will it suffice if I fulfill it on his behalf?” The Messenger of God said: “Yes.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Kurayb narrated to us, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAwf informed me: I said: “Messenger of God, ḥajj has become due for my father, but he can perform it only while someone supports him.” He was silent for a while, then said: “Perform ḥajj on behalf of your father.”

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us: al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from his brother al-Faḍl, who was riding behind the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, on the morning of the Day of Sacrifice. A woman from Khathʿam came to him and said: “Messenger of God, the obligation of ḥajj imposed by God upon His servants became due for my father when he was already an aged man, unable to ride. May I perform ḥajj on his behalf?” He said: “Yes, for if your father owed a debt, you would pay it on his behalf.”

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad and Muḥammad ibn Ṭarīf narrated to us, both saying: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Sūqah narrated to me, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: A woman lifted her child up to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, during his pilgrimage and asked: “Messenger of God, does this child have a ḥajj?” He said: “Yes, and you will have a reward.”

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ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays gave birth at al-Shajarah, so the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, instructed Abū Bakr to tell her to bathe and enter the state of consecration.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Khālid ibn Makhlad narrated to us, from Sulaymān ibn Bilāl: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us that he heard al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad relate from his father, from Abū Bakr, that he went out for ḥajj with the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, accompanied by Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays. She gave birth at al-Shajarah to Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr. Abū Bakr went to the Prophet and told him, and the Messenger of God instructed him to tell her to bathe, enter the state of consecration for ḥajj, and do what the other pilgrims do, except that she should not circumambulate the House.

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Ādam narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Jābir, who said: Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays gave birth to Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr. She sent word to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and he instructed her to bathe, bind herself with a cloth, and enter the state of consecration.

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Abū Muṣʿab narrated to us: Mālik ibn Anas narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The people of Medina enter the state of consecration at Dhū al-Ḥulayfah, the people of Syria at al-Juḥfah, and the people of Najd at Qarn.” ʿAbd Allāh said: I heard these three from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, and it reached me that the Messenger of God said: “The people of Yemen enter the state of consecration at Yalamlam.”

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, addressed us and said: “The place where the people of Medina enter consecration is Dhū al-Ḥulayfah; the people of Syria, al-Juḥfah; the people of Yemen, Yalamlam; the people of Najd, Qarn; and the people of the east, Dhāt ʿIrq.” Then he turned his face toward the horizon and said: “O God, turn their hearts toward You.”

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Muḥriz ibn Salamah al-ʿAdanī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Darāwardī narrated to us: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to me, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that whenever the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, put his foot in the stirrup and his mount stood level beneath him, he would begin the pilgrimage formula from beside the mosque of Dhū al-Ḥulayfah.

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim and ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us, both saying: al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: I was beside the calloused knees of the camel of the Messenger of God at al-Shajarah. When it stood level beneath him, he said: “Here I am, entering ʿumrah and ḥajj together.” That was during the Farewell Pilgrimage.

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Abū Muʿāwiyah, Abū Usāmah, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: I memorized the pilgrimage formula from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, as he said: “At Your service, O God, at Your service. At Your service; You have no partner; at Your service. Truly, all praise, blessing, and sovereignty belong to You. You have no partner.” Ibn ʿUmar would add: “At Your service, at Your service, at Your service; here I am, ready to obey. All good is in Your hands. At Your service; my longing is directed to You, and my deeds are for You.”

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Zayd ibn Akhzam narrated to us: Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Jābir, who said: The pilgrimage formula of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was: “At Your service, O God, at Your service. At Your service; You have no partner; at Your service. Truly, all praise, blessing, and sovereignty belong to You. You have no partner.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, both saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Salamah narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said in his pilgrimage formula: “At Your service, O True God, at Your service.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us: ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah al-Anṣārī narrated to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī, from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “Every person responding to the pilgrimage call is answered by whatever lies to their right and left—stones, trees, or clods of earth—until the earth ends on both sides.”