al-Hums

Hums: the name Quraysh and their allies gave themselves in imitation of zeal for the religion, and they invented for it novelties in the rites of hajj.

Quraysh were called the Hums — Quraysh, those born to Quraysh, and their Arab allies — and they used to say: we are God's people, the residents of God's sanctuary and the dwellers of God's House, so all the Arabs must revere us and revere our sanctuary ¹.

Among the novelties they instituted for themselves: they did not go out to Arafa nor stand at it because it lay outside the sanctuary, standing instead at Muzdalifa; when one of them wore ihram he did not wear the accustomed clothes but stripped or wore a garment next to his skin called al-rimad; when they made tawaf they stripped the men and women; and when one of them wore ihram he did not enter his house by its door but from its back ¹.

God sent down, on standing at Arafa: "Then press on from where the people press on" (al-Baqara 199); on nakedness in tawaf: "Take your adornment at every mosque" (al-A'raf 31); and on entering by the doors: "It is not righteousness to enter houses from their backs" (al-Baqara 189) ¹.