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al-Arj

العرج

A halting place on the Hijra road between Quba' and Makkah, mentioned by Ibn Ishaq in his account of the Hijra route.

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Al-Arj: a stopping place on the migration road between Quba and Mecca, mentioned by Ibn Ishaq in describing the migration route, according to the author of The Sealed Nectar. 1

An additional source is needed: the exact site.

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 807· Muwatta 1016· Muwatta 914

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Uthman ibn Affan· The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)· Muwatta, Book of Fasting· Abdallah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm· Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi· al-Qasim ibn Muhammad· ابن عبد البر

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Arj”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-arj/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)

The Book of Pilgrimage, sixth book of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997): 385 reports (898–1282) in eighty-three babs, PDF pp. 433–570 of volume 1, from the rules of the state of ihram through the hady, the standing at Arafa and Muzdalifa, the stoning, the expiations, to the pilgrimage of a woman without a mahram and the fasting of the tamattu' pilgrim.