Hajj and Umrah

Question: A man entered iḥrām for ʿUmrah, then performed ṭawāf of the House and prayed two rakʿahs, then shaved but did not perform saʿy—thinking that saʿy was not required. He then committed acts prohibited in iḥrām. What is required of...

Question: Some people, if they perform Hajj or ʿUmrah, seize the opportunity to go out from Makkah to the miqāt to enter iḥrām for an ʿUmrah; then, when they complete that ʿUmrah, they go out again to enter iḥrām for...

Question: A man performed Hajj twenty years ago, and today he is uncertain whether he performed Ṭawāf al-Ziyārah or not; what is required?

Question: What is your view regarding performing Ṭawāf around the Kaʿbah from the second or third level? And likewise, stoning the jamarāt from atop the bridge? And performing Saʿy between al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah from the second level?

Question: If a pilgrim rides by car from ʿArafāt to Muzdalifah and does not reach Muzdalifah until after midnight due to severe congestion, and he cannot get out of the car and walk on foot because he is accompanied by...

Question: In these recent years, a pilgrim does not find a place in Minā to spend the night, and if he intends to sit, the soldiers make him get up; they do not permit spending the night in Minā except...

Question: Today Minā has become constricted because of the camps and roads, and the security personnel in Minā prevent pilgrims from sitting in the streets and thoroughfares and expel them outside Minā on the pretext that the muftis there have...

Question: If the Saudi state announces that the Day of ʿArafah is a given day, and some pilgrims hesitate regarding the correctness of that announcement and suspect that the Day of ʿArafah is the next day, and this hesitant person...

Question: What is the clarification of the time for standing at ʿArafah?

Question: If a pilgrim omitted audible recitation (al-jahr) in the two rakʿahs of Ṭawāf out of ignorance of its obligation, or out of forgetfulness, and only remembered that after the Days of Tashrīq had passed, or after he returned to...