سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْحَجِّ الْأَكْبَرِ فَإِنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ يَوْمُ عَرَفَةَ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) الْحَجُّ الْأَكْبَرُ يَوْمُ النَّحْرِ وَ يَحْتَجُّ بِقَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَسِيحُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَ هِيَ عِشْرُونَ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ وَ الْمُحَرَّمُ وَ صَفَرٌ وَ شَهْرُ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ وَ عَشْرٌ مِنْ رَبِيعٍ الْآخِرِ وَ لَوْ كَانَ الْحَجُّ الْأَكْبَرُ يَوْمَ عَرَفَةَ لَكَانَ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَ يَوْماً .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and Ali Bin Muhammad Al Qasany, altogether from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood Al Minqary, from Fuzayl Bin Iyaz who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the Greater Hajj, ‘But Ibn Abbas was saying that it is on the day of Arafat!’ So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The Greater Hajj is on the day of the Sacrifice, and he<sup>asws</sup> argued by the Words of the Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:9#h2"><a href="/books/quran:9#h2">[9:2]</a></a> So go about in the land for four months</span>, and these are the twenty (days) from Zil-Hijjaj, and Al-Muharram, and Safar, and the month of Rabbi Al-Awwal, and ten (days) from Rabbi Al-Akhar, and had the Greater Hajj been on the day of Arafat, it would have been four months and one day’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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