and their permitting the Hums what they forbade to others, such as circumambulating in clothes and eating certain foods; their not entering through the doors of houses in which openings had been made while in a state of pilgrimage consecration; and their exempting the Hums from departing from ʿArafah, allowing them to depart from Muzdalifah instead.

The same applies to the special status in matters of worship and prohibitions claimed by some nobles of Banū Hāshim and by those who claim to belong to them because they share their views, such as Shiism and the like. This is comparable to what the Hums used to claim.