carries provisions and a water-skin (1). After that he proceeds to ʿArafah, and this is the Sunnah. Yet in our times hardly anyone goes to Namirah or to the place where the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—prayed; rather, they enter (2) ʿArafah by way of (3) al-Maʾziman (4), and they reach it before the sun passes the meridian. Some even enter it at night and spend the night there before the standing. All of this (5) that people are doing does fulfil the requirements of the pilgrimage, but it falls short of the Sunnah. One should therefore observe as much of the Sunnah as possible—for example, combining the two prayers, giving one adhān and a separate iqāmah for each prayer.
Lighting fires at ʿArafah is a reprehensible innovation, and the same—by unanimous agreement of the scholars—applies to lighting fires at Mina. The only place where lighting fires is sanctioned is Muzdalifah, and that solely on the return journey (6).