154 – Seeking blessing from the flakes of green paint that are washed down from the dome of the Prophet’s tomb when it rains!
155 – Drawing near to Allah by eating Ṣayḥānī dates in the Noble Rawḍah, the space between the pulpit and the grave.
156 – Cutting off locks of their own hair and throwing them into the large chandelier located close to the Prophetic resting place.
157 – Some people rubbing their hands over the two copper palm-trees that have been set up in the mosque to the west of the pulpit.¹
158 – The insistence of many worshippers on praying in the original part of the mosque, turning away from the front rows in the extension added by ʿUmar and others.
159 – Visitors to Madinah making it a rule to stay for a full week so that they can perform forty prayers in the Prophet’s Mosque, believing that this will earn them a certificate of immunity from hypocrisy and from the Fire.²
160 – Setting out to visit any of the other mosques or shrines in and around Madinah apart from the Prophet’s Mosque ﷺ, with the sole exception of Qubāʾ Mosque.
161 – Those known as “the guides” (al-muzawwīrīn) coaching groups of pilgrims in certain litanies and supplications—whether at the Chamber or elsewhere—raising their voices, and the pilgrims repeating after them even more loudly.
162 – Visiting al-Baqīʿ every day and praying in the mosque of Fāṭimah ﵂.
163 – Designating Thursday for visiting the martyrs of Uḥud.
164 – Tying strips of cloth to the window that looks out over the martyrs’ field.
165 – Seeking blessing by bathing in the pool that once stood beside their graves.
166 – Walking out of the Prophet’s Mosque backwards when taking leave.