Ibn Isḥāq said: “We have heard that only from them. Others maintain that Quṣayy sought the aid of his maternal kinsmen, whose chief was Ruzāḥ ibn Rabīʿah and his brothers (1), together with the clans of Kinānah, Quḍāʿah, and the tribes of Quraysh and others living around Mecca (2). With their support he expelled Khuzaʿah from the House and assumed sole custodianship of it.

Yet the prerogative of dismissing the pilgrims remained with the group called Ṣufah, the descendants of al-Ghawth ibn Mur ibn Add ibn Ṭābikhah ibn Ilyās ibn Muḍar. People would not stone the Jamārāt until Ṣufah had done so, nor would they depart from Minā until Ṣufah set out. That charge stayed with them until they died out, whereupon it passed—through a maternal connection (4)—to the sons of Saʿd ibn Zayd Manāh ibn Tamīm (5). The first of these was Ṣafwān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Shijnah ibn ʿAṭārid ibn ʿAwf ibn Kaʿb [ibn Saʿd] (6) ibn Zayd Manāh of Tamīm, and the office remained in his household until Islam reached its last holder, Karib ibn Ṣafwān.

The authority to dismiss the pilgrims from Muzdalifah (7) lay with the tribe of ʿAdwān until Islam overtook its last incumbent, Abū Sayyārah ʿUmaylah ibn al-Aʿzal. It is also said that his personal name was al-ʿĀṣī and that al-Aʿzal’s name was Khālid (8). Mounted on a one-eyed she-ass, he would grant leave to the people and urge them on from the Standing Place (9) for forty consecutive years. He was the first to fix the blood-money at one hundred camels (10) and the first to chant:
“Ashriq, Thabīr, so that we may set out!” (11)
This was reported by al-Suhaylī (12).

As for ʿĀmir ibn al-Ẓarib al-ʿAdwānī, whenever any dispute (13) arose among the Arabs they would submit the matter to him, and they were content with whatever judgment he rendered.