then the Messenger of Allah set off for the Sacred House and performed the noon prayer in Mecca.” Related by Muslim in full (1).

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays – the ʿayn in her name is pronounced with ḍamma and the mīm with fatḥa, followed by a yāʾ and an undotted sīn. She was a woman of the Khathʿam tribe. She was first married to Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib and bore him his children; when he was martyred at the Battle of Muʾtah, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq married her, and at the miqāt she gave birth to Muḥammad. After Abū Bakr’s death she became the wife of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
• Istathfari – spelled with sīn, then tāʾ, then thāʾ, then fāʾ, then rāʾ. A woman given this command is to tighten a band round her waist, place a broad cloth over the place of bleeding, and fasten it front and back to prevent any discharge. The modern equivalent is the sanitary pad.
• Al-Qaṣwāʾ – with an open qāf, a quiescent ṣād, then wāw and a long alif. Al-Nihāyah defines it as a she-camel whose ear-tip has been cut, though the Prophet’s camel was intact. Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī said that al-Qaṣwāʾ, al-ʿAḍbāʾ and al-Jadʿāʾ are three names for a single camel of the Prophet ﷺ, the one on which he emigrated and the one that once lost a race, which distressed the Companions.
• Al-Bayḍāʾ – with bāʾ, yāʾ, dāl and a long alif; it means an open wilderness (pl. bīd).
• Aḥalla bi-t-tawḥīd – he raised his voice with the talbiyah, which encompasses the oneness of Allah in worship, lordship, and His names and attributes. All three categories of tawḥīd are contained in the talbiyah, and in it lies a rebuke of the pre-Islamic Arabs who used to append the words, “except for a partner who…”