Chapter: It is recommended to halt at Al-Muhassab on the day of departing from Mina and to perform Zuhr and subsequent prayers there
Abd al-'Aziz b. Rufai' (Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked Anas b. Malik to tell me about something he knew about Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), viz. where he observed the noon prayer on Yaum al-Tarwiya. He said: At Mina. I said: Where did he observe the afternoon prayer on the Yaum an-Nafr? and he said: It was at al-Abtah. He then said: Do as your rulers do.
Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and Abu Bakr and 'Umar observed halt at al-Abtah.
Nafi' reported that Ibn 'Umar regarded halt at Muhassab as Sunnah (of the Holy Prophet) and observed the noon prayer on Yaum al-Nafr at that place. Nafi' said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) halted at Muhassab and the Caliphs did the same after him.
A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported.: Halt at al-Abtah is not the Sunnah. Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) halted there simply because it was easier for him to depart from there, when he left.
This hadith is narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters.
Salim reported that Abu Bakr, 'Umar and Ibn Umar used to halt at Abtah. 'Urwa narrated from 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) that he did not observe this practice and said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) halted there, for it is a place from where it was easy to depart.
Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported: Halt at Muhassab is not something (significant from the point of view of the Shari'ah). It is a place of halt where Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) halted.
Abu Rafi' reported: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) did not command me to observe halt at al-Abtah when be departed from Mina, but I came and set up his (the Holy Prcphet's) tent (of my own accord) ; and he (Allah's Apostle) came and observed halt. This hadith is narrated through another chain of transmitters from Abu Rafi' who was (in charge) of the luggage of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ).
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleated with him) reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: God willing, we will get down tomorrow, at Khaif of Banu Kinanah, the place where they had taken an oath on unbelief.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said to us as we were at Mina: We would observe halt tomorrow at-Khaif of Banu Kinanah, where (the polytheists) had taken an oath on unbelief, and that was that the Quraish and Banu Kinanah had, pledged against Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib that they would neither marry nor do any transaction with them unless they deliver Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) to them. And (this pledge was) taken at this (place) Muhassab.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: God willing, when Allah has granted us victory, our halt tomorrow will be at Khaif, where they (the unbelievers of Mecca) had taken an oath on unbelief.