and His Messenger’s disavowal of every polytheist.
He then rode to his standing place at the Sacred Monument, faced the qiblah, and began supplicating and beseeching Allah, declaring His greatness, proclaiming that there is no god but Allah, and remembering Him, until it was fully light, before sunrise.
There, ‘Urwah ibn Mudarris al-Tā’ī asked him, “O Messenger of Allah, I (1) have come from the two mountains of Tayyi’. I have exhausted my mount and wearied myself. By Allah, I have left no sand dune (2) without standing on it (3). Is my Hajj valid?” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, replied:
“Whoever attends this prayer of ours and stands with us until we depart, having previously stood at ‘Arafah by night or by day, has completed (4) his Hajj and fulfilled his rites.”
Al-Tirmidhī (5) said: “This is a good, authentic hadith.”
This was cited as evidence by those who held that standing at Muzdalifah and spending the night there constitute an essential pillar of Hajj, like standing at ‘Arafah. This was the position of two Companions, Ibn ‘Abbās and Ibn al-Zubayr, and was also held by Ibrāhīm