from east to west for approximately two kilometres, bounded on the east by Wadi al-Hanū and on the west by Wadi al-ʿAṣlāʾ ash-Sharqiyyah; this mountain constitutes the southern boundary of the miqāt.

2 – The miqāt of Dhāt ʿIrq lies in a ravine between two mountains. A large seasonal watercourse, running east to west and known as Wadi aḍ-Ḍarībah, passes through it. The ravine widens in some places and narrows in others, varying between 200 and 500 metres in width, and its length from east to west is roughly two kilometres.

The site is also called al-Ṭarfāʾ. At its centre there is an old well that still holds water, named al-Khaḍrāʾ; according to the local guides who accompanied the committee, residents and travellers from the surrounding areas who wish to enter iḥrām do so at that well. Within this enclosed area are traces of ruins and the foundations of ancient buildings, nothing of which rises above ground level. To the west of these, north of the wadi bed, lie the remains of an old cemetery. Trees of salām, ṭalḥ and samar acacias cover most of the miqāt’s terrain.

Boundaries of the miqāt. As the committee determined, its limits are as follows:

• The eastern boundary is the confluence of Wadi al-Hanū and Wadi Ankhal, where their waters unite to form Wadi aḍ-Ḍarībah. It is at this meeting point that the ʿirq from which the miqāt takes its name begins. Along this line stand three stone markers:
– The first, to the south, is on the eastern foot of the mentioned ʿirq at the course of Wadi al-Hanū.
– The second stands above the junction of Wadi al-Hanū and Wadi Ankhal, in the triangular tract between them just before they merge.
– The third is on the slope of the northern mountain that faces Jabal ʿIrq from the north.

The local companions informed the committee that these three markers had been placed