Muzdalifah

Muzdalifah (Arabic: مُزْدَلِفَة) is an open and level area near Mecca in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia that is associated with the Ḥajj ("Pilgrimage").^[1][2][3][4] It lies just southeast of Mina, on the route between Mina and Arafat.

Muzdalifah مُزْدَلِفَة
City
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Coordinates: 21°23′33″N 39°56′16″E
Country	Saudi Arabia
Region	Makkah
Government
• Regional Governor	Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud
Time zone	UTC+3 (Arabia Standard Time)

In Pre-Islamic times the Hums being the Quraysh, Banu Kinanah, Banu Khuza'a and Banu 'Amir would camp at Muzdalifah and refuse to go to Mount Arafat with the other Arabs.^[5]

With the coming of Islam, the Hums were reprimanded for this behaviour and told to depart with the other Arabs in Quran 2:199.

Pilgrimage

The stay at Muzdalifah is preceded by a day at Mount Arafat, consisting of glorifying God, repeating the duʿāʾ (Supplication), repentance to God, and asking him for forgiveness. At Arafat, Ẓuhr and ʿAṣr prayers are performed in a combined and abbreviated form during the time of Zuhr. After sunset on the ninth day of the Islamic month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah, Muslim pilgrims travel to Muzdalifah, sometimes arriving at night because of over-crowding. After arriving at Muzdalifah, pilgrims pray the Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ prayers jointly, whereas the Isha prayer is shortened to 2 rakats. At Muzdalifah, pilgrims collect pebbles for the Stoning of the Devil (Arabic: رَمِي ٱلْجَمَرَات, romanized: Ramī al-Jamarāt, lit. 'Stoning of the Place of Pebbles').^[6][7][8]

The Sacred Monument

The Sacred Grove
Al-Mashʿar Al-Ḥarām (ٱلْمَشْعَر ٱلْحَرَام)
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Province	Makkah
Region	Hejaz
Deity	Allah (God)
Rite	Hajj
Status	Active
Location
Location	Muzdalifah
Country	Saudi Arabia
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Administration	Saudi government
Geographic coordinates	21°23′10″N 39°54′44″E
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Islamic
Specifications
Direction of façade	Qiblah
Minaret(s)	2

The open-roofed mosque at Muzdalifah is known as "The Sacred Grove [ar]"^[1][2][3][4] (Arabic: ٱلْمَشْعَر ٱلْحَرَام‎, romanized: Al-Mashʿar Al-Ḥarām).^[9]

See also

• Holiest sites in Islam
• Haram (site)
• List of mosques that are mentioned by name in the Quran
• Sarat Mountains
  • Hijaz Mountains

References

1. Long, David E. (1979). "2: The Rites of the Hajj". The Hajj Today: A Survey of the Contemporary Pilgrimage to Makkah. SUNY Press. pp. 11–24. ISBN 0-8739-5382-7. With thousands of Hajjis, most of them in motor vehicles, rushing headlong for Muzdalifah [...] There is special grace for praying at the roofless mosque in Muzdalifah called al-Mash'ar al-Haram (the Sacred Grove)
2. Danarto (1989). A Javanese pilgrim in Mecca. p. 27. ISBN 0-8674-6939-0. It was still dark when we arrived at Muzdalifah, four miles away. The Koran instructs us to spend the night at al-Mash'ar al-Haram. the Sacred Grove at Muzdalifah, as one of the conditions for the hajj.
3. Jones, Lindsay (2005). Encyclopedia of religion. Vol. 10. Macmillan Reference USA. p. 7159. ISBN 0-0286-5743-8. The Qur'an admonishes: "When you hurry from Arafat, remember God at the Sacred Grove (al-mash' ar al-haram)," that is, at Muzdalifah (2:198). Today a mosque marks the place in Muzdalifah where pilgrims gather to perform the special saldt
4. Ziauddin Sardar; M. A. Zaki Badawi (1978). Hajj Studies. Jeddah: Croom Helm for Hajj Research Centre; King Abdul Aziz University. p. 32. ISBN 0-8566-4681-4. Muzdalifah is an open plain sheltered by parched hills with sparse growth of thorn bushes. The pilgrims spend a night under the open sky of the roofless Mosque, the Sacred Grove, Al Mush'ar al-Haram. On the morning of the tenth, all depart[.]
5. https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4520
6. Burton, Richard Francis (1857). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. p. 226. The word jamrah is applied to the place of stoning, as well as to the stones.
7. Abū Dā'ūd (1984). Sunan Abu Dawud: Chapters 519-1337. Sh. M. Ashraf. ISBN 978-9-6943-2097-7. 1204. Jamrah originally means a pebble. It is applied to the heap of stones or a pillar.
8. Hughes, Thomas Patrick (1995) [1885]. Dictionary of Islam. Asian Educational Services. p. 225. ISBN 978-81-206-0672-2. Literally "gravel, or small pebbles." The three pillars [...] placed against a rough wall of stones [...]
9. Quran 2:129 ^{(Translated by Yusuf Ali)}

External links

• In Arabic
• Mina and Muzdalifah on YouTube
• Arafah Hajj Muzdalifah Jamarah Makkah Hajj
• IslamiCity