, whose name is “Ilāl,” rhyming with hilāl (crescent). This is the mountain that ordinary people call ʿArafah. He and the Muslims continued remembering Allah and supplicating until the sun set. He then led them onwards to Muzdalifah, where he prayed Maghrib and ʿIshā after the twilight had disappeared, before they unloaded their baggage at their stopping-place. He spent the night there until dawn broke, then led the Muslims in Fajr at the very beginning of its time, while it was still darker than when he prayed on other days.

He then took his station at “Quzah,” the mountain of Muzdalifah known as al-Mashʿar al-Harām (the Sacred Monument), although all of Muzdalifah constitutes the Sacred Monument mentioned in the Quran. He remained there with the Muslims until it had grown very light. Then he led them onwards until he reached Minā, beginning there by stoning Jamrat al-ʿAqabah. He then returned to his lodging at Minā and shaved his head. After that, he slaughtered sixty-three of the sacrificial camels he had brought and instructed ʿAlī to slaughter the rest; there were one hundred camels in all. He then proceeded to Mecca and performed the circumambulation of ifādah. He had sent the weaker members of his household ahead from Muzdalifah before dawn, and they had stoned the pillar during the night.

He then stayed with the Muslims for the three days at Minā, leading them in the five daily prayers, shortening but not combining them. Each day, after the sun passed its zenith, he stoned the three pillars, beginning with the first—the smallest, nearest to Minā and farthest from Mecca—and ending with Jamrat al-ʿAqabah. Between the first and second pillars, and between the second and third, he would pause at length, for as long as it takes to recite Surah al-Baqarah, remembering Allah and supplicating. For there are three standing-places: ʿArafah