Standing at 'Arafah with the Muslim community, not by calculation

Question: What is the ruling on a group who do not stand at 'Arafah except by a monthly calculation they perform, so that sometimes they stand there a day before the Muslims, sometimes a day after them, and sometimes they coincide with them? It is known that they do not perform Hajj except in the company of the Mulkarim, because they believe that Hajj is not valid without that?

Answer: What the questioner mentioned regarding the aforementioned group contradicts the Shari'ah in two respects:

The first is: Their deviation from the Muslim community and their failure to stand with them. It is obligatory for Muslims to be one body and one structure in adhering to the truth and not deviating from the path of the believers, out of fear of what Allah has threatened those who oppose their path, as He the Exalted said: [Surat al-Nisa: 115]. As for their insistence that the month must always be thirty days, this is one of their great errors that contradicts the Sunnah and scholarly consensus, and this has been clarified previously in the answer to the first question.

The second aspect: Their condition for the validity of Hajj that the pilgrims must be in the company of one of the Mulkarim. This is one of the most invalid falsehoods, having no basis in the pure Shari'ah. Rather, it contradicts the Book, the Sunnah, and the consensus of the scholars. No scholar has said that Hajj is not valid unless a specific person is among the pilgrims. Rather, this statement is one of the abominable religious innovations that have no basis among Muslims.