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What is the evidence that it is obligatory to stay overnight in Muzdalifah?

Question: 109173

What is the evidence that it is obligatory to stay overnight in Muzdalifah?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

The evidence that it is obligatory is the verse in which
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “There is no sin on you if
you seek the Bounty of your Lord (during pilgrimage by trading, etc.). Then
when you leave Arafat, remember Allah (by glorifying His Praises, i.e.
prayers and invocations, etc.) at the Mashar-il-Haram. And remember Him (by
invoking Allah for all good, etc.) as He has guided you, and verily, you
were, before, of those who were astray” [al-Baqarah 2:198]. 

The basic principle with regard to commands is that they are
obligatory unless there is evidence to indicate otherwise. And because the
Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said to ‘Urwah ibn
Mudarris (may Allah be pleased with him), when he met him at Fajr prayer on
the day of Muzdalifah, when he said: O Messenger of Allah, I have worn
myself out and I have exhausted my camel; there is no hill on which I did
not stand. The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)
said: “Whoever attended this prayer of ours and stood with us until we moved
on, and stood in ‘Arafah before that, by night or day, has completed his
Hajj and completed his rituals.”

 And because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be
upon him) granted a concession to the weak allowing them to move on from
Muzdalifah at the end of the night, and the concession indicates that the
original principle is that it was a duty and a must. In fact some of the
scholars are of the view that stopping in Muzdalifah is one of the pillars
or essential parts of Hajj, because Allah, may He be exalted, enjoined it in
the verse in which He said (interpretation of the meaning):

“Whoever attended this prayer of ours and stood with us
until we moved on, and stood in ‘Arafah before that, by night or day, has
completed his Hajj and completed his rituals”

[al-Baqarah 2:198]. 

And the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)
adhered to that and said: “I have stopped here, and all of Jam‘ – i.e.
Muzdalifah – is a place of stopping.” Narrated by Muslim. But the moderate
scholarly view is that staying overnight in Muzdalifah is obligatory but is
not an essential part or pillar and is not a Sunnah. End quote. 

Majmoo‘ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 23/52.

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