out of a claim to leadership, boasting in the process, and by that very act they contravened the rites of Ibrāhīm—peace be upon him—along with many other teachings they had already forsaken.
Al-Bukhārī and Muslim relate, through the narration of Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, who said: “I lost a camel of mine on the Day of ʿArafah, so I went out searching for it at ʿArafah. There I saw the Prophet ﷺ standing with the people at ʿArafah, and I exclaimed, ‘He belongs to the ḥums; what is he doing here?’”
Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays ibn Makhramah told me, from al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, from his father, from his grandfather, that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say: “Never did I contemplate any shameful act to which the people of the Age of Ignorance were inclined except twice, and on both occasions Allah protected me. One night I said to a youth from Quraysh, ‘Watch my sheep for me while I spend this night in Mecca as the young men do.’ He agreed. I went off and, when I reached the nearest house of Mecca, I heard singing, the beat of tambourines, and the sound of flutes. I asked, ‘What is this?’ They replied, ‘So-and-so is getting married.’ I lingered there listening until sleep overcame me; nothing woke me but the touch of the sun. I went back to my companion. On another night I did the same. By Allah, after that I never again thought of any wrongdoing such as the people of the Age of Ignorance practiced, until Allah honoured me with prophethood.”
Masʿar transmitted from al-ʿAbbās ibn Dhurayḥ, from Ziyād al-Nakhaʿī, who said: ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir told us that they asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, “Did you ever commit anything unlawful during the pre-Islamic period?” He replied, “No. I did, however, arrange two appointments with it; on one, the night-time gathering of my people came between me and it, and on the other, sleep overcame me”—or words to that effect.
Ibn Saʿd said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us, saying: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Sabrah narrated to us from Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, from ʿIkrimah, from