5. We were told by my father, may Allah grant him mercy, that he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Qasem bin Muhammed al-Esbahani, from Sulayman bin Dawud al-Manqari, that he said: We were told by Fudail bin ‘Ayyadh, from Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, that he said: I asked him about the greater pilgrimage, so he said: Do you have anything about it? I said: Yes. Ibn Abbas used to say: The greater pilgrimage is on the Day of Arafah. He meant that the one who catches up with the Day of Arafah until the rise of the dawn from the day of slaughter, has indeed caught up with the pilgrimage, and that the one who misses that has missed the (completion of the) pilgrimage. Hence, he made the night of Arafah (as a standard) to what is before it and to what is after it. The evidence to that is that the one who catches up with the night of (what is before the day of) sacrifice until the rise of dawn, has indeed caught up with the pilgrimage, and it would suffice to him from (the Day of) Arafah. Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, said: The Commander of the Believers, peace be upon him, said: The greater pilgrimage is the day of slaughter. He argued with the saying of Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He: «So, travel freely in the land for four months» (9:2) and they are twenty from Dhu’l-Hijjah, Muharram, Safar, the month of Rabi’ul-Awwal, and ten from the month of Rabi’ul-Akhir. If the greater pilgrimage was on the Day of Arafah, the (duration of) free travel would have been four months and one day. Moreover, he argued with the saying of Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He: «And (it is) an announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage» (9:2), and I was the announcement among the people. Then I said to him: What is the meaning of this phrase: «the greater pilgrimage»? He said: It was only named the greater pilgrimage because it was a year in which (both) the Muslims and the polytheists performed pilgrimage, and the polytheists did not perform pilgrimage after that year.
IsnādMon père - qu'Allah lui fasse miséricorde - nous a informés, il a dit: Saad ibn Abdullah nous a informés, de Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad Al-Asbahani, de Sulayman ibn Dawud Al-Minqari, qui a dit: Fudayl ibn 'Iyad nous a informés, de Abu Abdullah - que la paix soit sur lui - a dit:
J'ai demandé à propos du Grand Pèlerinage, il a dit: "As-tu quelque chose à ce sujet?" J'ai dit: "Oui, Ibn Abbas disait: Le Grand Pèlerinage est le jour d'Arafat, ce qui signifie que celui qui atteint le jour d'Arafat jusqu'à l'aube du jour du Sacrifice a accompli le Hajj, et celui qui le manque a manqué le Hajj. Ainsi, la nuit d'Arafat est incluse dans ce qui la précède et ce qui la suit. La preuve en est que celui qui atteint la nuit du Sacrifice jusqu'à l'aube a accompli le Hajj et a partiellement accompli Arafat." Abu Abdullah - que la paix soit sur lui - a dit: "L'Imam Ali - que la paix soit sur lui - a dit: Le Grand Pèlerinage est le jour du Sacrifice, et il a argumenté avec la parole d'Allah le Très-Haut: 'Parcourez la terre pendant quatre mois', qui sont les vingt jours de Dhul-Hijjah, Muharram, Safar, et dix jours de Rabi' al-Awwal et dix jours de Rabi' al-Thani. Si le Grand Pèlerinage était le jour d'Arafat, alors le parcours serait de quatre mois et un jour, et il a argumenté avec la parole d'Allah le Très-Haut: 'Et [proclamez] l'Appel à la Pèlerinage parmi les hommes, ils viendront à toi à pied et sur toute monture, venant de tout chemin éloigné', et j'étais celui qui proclamait l'Appel parmi les gens. Je lui ai demandé: Quel est le sens de cette expression 'Grand Pèlerinage'? Il a dit: Elle a été appelée 'la plus grande' car c'était l'année où les musulmans et les polythéistes faisaient le Hajj, et les polythéistes n'ont plus fait le Hajj après cette année."
