Innovations concerning ʿArafah:

72- Standing on Mount ʿArafah for an hour on the eighth day as a precaution lest the new-moon sighting be wrong.

73- Lighting large numbers of candles in Mina on the night before ʿArafah.

74- Repeating, on the eve of ʿArafah, a ten-word supplication one thousand times: “Glorified is He whose Throne is in the heaven; glorified is He whose footstool is on the earth; glorified is He whose path is in the sea …” and so on.

75- Travelling from Mecca to ʿArafah in a single journey on the eighth day.

76- Setting out from Mina for ʿArafah at night.

77- Lighting fires and candles on Mount ʿArafah on the night before ʿArafah.

78- Performing a ritual bath specifically for the Day of ʿArafah.

79- Saying, upon nearing ʿArafah and first sighting Mount Mercy: “Glory be to Allah, praise be to Allah, there is no god but Allah, and Allah is greatest.”

80- Deliberately heading to ʿArafah before the prescribed time for standing begins—i.e., before midday on the Day of ʿArafah.

81- Reciting the tahlil (“there is no god but Allah”) one hundred times on ʿArafah, then Surah al-Ikhlās one hundred times, then invoking blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ—adding at the end, “and upon us along with them”—one hundred times.