[What the Pilgrim Should Do If He Finds No Place to Spend the Night in Minā?]

Mufti:

Alsayyed Muhammad b. Abdallah Awad Al-Muayyady

تاريخ النشر: December 19, 2025

Fatwa number: 17992

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[What the Pilgrim Should Do If He Finds No Place to Spend the Night in Minā?]

Fatwa number: 17992

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 for the people of the camps, and the camps are restricted to the official pilgrims who perform Hajj through the agencies. What should the pilgrim do—should he spend the night outside Minā as thousands of pilgrims do by a fatwā issued there, or should the pilgrim spend the night in Minā standing on his feet, not allowed to sit?

Answer—and with Allah is success: If the pilgrim does not find a place where he can sit and rest, it is permissible for him to spend the night outside Minā, in al-Maʿābidah or elsewhere. The evidence for this is what is well-known—that the Prophet (May Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) granted a concession to al-ʿAbbās and to the camel herders to spend the night outside Minā.
Source: Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.1