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al-Shajara

الشجرة

A place on the Medina road that al-Idrisi names as the miqat for people of Medina, with a few Arabs living there, a short distance from the city. 1

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al-Shajara: a place on the road to Medina. al-Idrisi reports that it is the miqat of the people of Medina, that a few Arab people live there, and that the distance from it to Medina is short. 2

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 922

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Muwatta 922

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 142
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.142
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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.