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Muzdalifa

المزدلفة

A place between Arafat and Mina, where pilgrims spend the night of the sacrifice (laylat al-nahr).

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Muzdalifa is the place between Arafa and Mina where the pilgrims spend the eve of the sacrifice night.

Muzdalifa is the place between Arafa and Mina where the pilgrims sleep on the eve of the sacrifice, after standing at Arafa and before stoning the pillars at Mina.

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Muzdalifa is the place between Arafa and Mina where the pilgrims sleep on the eve of the sacrifice — the station between the daytime standing at Arafa and the stoning of Jamrat al-Aqaba at Mina on the morning of the tenth.

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Muzdalifa is a site between 'Arafa and Mina. Pilgrims spend the night there on the night of sacrifice. 1

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Muwatta 1151· Muwatta 1152· Muwatta 1153· Muwatta 1154· Muwatta 1156· Muwatta 1159· Muwatta 1160· Muwatta 1161· Muwatta 1163· Muwatta 1191· Muwatta 1192· Muwatta 1193· Muwatta 1194· Muwatta 1223· Muwatta 1230· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca)· Arafat· Mina· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Asma bint Abi Bakr· Nafi' al-Madani

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islam.museum contributors. “Muzdalifa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/muzdalifa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

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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.