Dhu al-Hulayfa (the pilgrim's station, miqat, of the people of Medina)

ذو الحليفة

Dhu al-Hulayfa was a water of the Banu Jushan and then the name of the place; it is the miqat of the people of Medina, six miles from Medina and two hundred miles from Mecca less two miles. ¹ The Prophet, going out to Mecca, prayed at the mosque of the tree, and returning, he prayed at Dhu al-Hulayfa in the valley and spent the night there. ¹ It is one of the stations for entering the state of ihram for hajj and umra, and it carries the rules of the stations. ¹

Depth

At a glance

Era: The Prophetic Era
Region: Arabia
Review: Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it

Worship and the pillars

Summary

Dhu al-Hulayfa was a water of the Banu Jushan and then the name of the place; it is the miqat of the people of Medina. ¹ It lies six miles from Medina and two hundred miles from Mecca less two miles. ¹

Prayer there

The Prophet, going out to Mecca, prayed at the mosque of the tree; returning, he prayed at Dhu al-Hulayfa in the valley and spent the night there. ¹ It is one of the stations for entering the state of ihram for hajj and umra, and it carries the rules of the stations. ¹

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

Sources

al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8498

Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Dhu al-Hulayfa (the pilgrim's station, miqat, of the people of Medina)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/dhu-al-hulayfa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Place

Cities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time. Related

The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.