Staying overnight at Muzdalifah: What is sufficient? Is it most of the night, or until morning?
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The questioner : Some pilgrims, when they depart from 'Arafah and arrive at Muzdalifah, consider that staying for most of the night is sufficient... Does the Shaykh think that this is sufficient, or is it necessary to stay until morning?
The Shaykh : It is necessary to stay until morning, because the hadith on this matter is explicit, and it is the hadith of 'Urwah ibn al-Muththir... which says that whoever...
The questioner :.
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : It is... the hadithBulugh al-Maram 758.
The Shaykh : So this means that whoever does not do that, and among the signs of that is that he did not reach the Fajr prayer, and among the signs is that his Hajj is not completed, and whoever does not complete his Hajj has no Hajj.
The Shaykh : It is necessary to stay until morning, because the hadith on this matter is explicit, and it is the hadith of 'Urwah ibn al-Muththir... which says that whoever...
The questioner :
Whoever witnessed our prayer with us...
من شهد معنا صلاتنا هذه ...Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : It is... the hadith
Anyone who offered this prayer -at al-Muzdalifah- along with us, and waited with us until we returned to Mina, and he stayed at 'Arafat (on the 9th ) before that by night or day, he would have completed the prescribed duties of Hajj.
من شهد معنا صلاتنا هذه فوقف معنا حتى ندفع وقد وقف بعرفة قبل ذلك ليلا أو نهارا فقد تمّ حجه وقضى تفثهThe Shaykh : So this means that whoever does not do that, and among the signs of that is that he did not reach the Fajr prayer, and among the signs is that his Hajj is not completed, and whoever does not complete his Hajj has no Hajj.