104 - Entering Mecca at Night

2863 - ‘Imrān ibn Yazīd informed me, on the authority of Shu‘ayb, who said: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, saying: Muzāḥim ibn Abī Muzāḥim informed me, on the authority of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Abd Allāh, on the authority of Muḥarrish al-Ka‘bī, that the Prophet ﷺ set out at night from al-Ji‘rānah when evening had come, intending to perform ‘umrah, and he reached al-Ji‘rānah in the morning as one who had spent the night there. Then, when the sun had passed its zenith, he departed from al-Ji‘rānah into the valley of Sarif, until he came along the road—the road to Medina—from Sarif.

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= Two chains of transmission, from Mūsā ibn ‘Uqbah, with this same isnād. The second narration of al-Bukhārī mentions his stopping at Dhī Ṭuwā between the two mountain passes, his entering the Sacred Mosque, and his circumambulation…

It was also narrated similarly by Aḥmad (4628), al-Bukhārī (1573) and (1574), Muslim (1259): (226) and (227), the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (4226), Abū Dāwūd (1865), and Ibn Ḥibbān (3908), via two chains from Nāfi‘, mentioning the Prophet’s ﷺ spending the night at Dhī Ṭuwā and his praying the morning prayer, with some narrators adding more than others.

His saying: “at Dhī Ṭuwā”: it is the name of a place near Mecca. His saying: “when he arrived” is connected to “he used to stop.” His saying: “on an akamah”—with fatḥah on all letters—means something below a mountain and higher than a hillock; it is also said: below a hillock. Al-Sindī said this.

(1) The reading is confirmed from (M) and a copy in the margin of (K), and it is the narration of al-Nasā’ī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā; in the other copies: mashā (he walked).
(2) In (M): min (from), with “an” (from) written above it (variant copy).
(3) The reading is confirmed from (M), and it is the narration of al-Sunan al-Kubrā; in the other copies: jāma‘a (he joined).
(4) Its isnād is ḥasan; Muzāḥim ibn Abī Muzāḥim is ṣadūq, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Shu‘ayb is Ibn Isḥāq, and Ibn Jurayj is ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz. He explicitly stated that he narrated by hearing, so any suspicion of tadlīs is removed. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Abd Allāh is Ibn Khālid ibn Asīd. It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (3832), and Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr declared it ṣaḥīḥ in al-Tamhīd 24/408.

It was also narrated by Aḥmad (15513), (15514), and (15519), al-Tirmidhī (935), and the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (4222), via two chains from Ibn Jurayj, with this same isnād, and they have the addition: “so whoever…”