Gathering on the day of Arafah: those who said it is only at Arafah

Al-Hasan said: The first to hold the gathering for dhikr on the day of Arafah (ta'rif) in Basra was Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Musa bin Abi A'ishah said: I saw Sayyiduna Amr bin Hurayth (may Allah be pleased with him) delivering a sermon on the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah, and the people had gathered around him.

Al-A'mash said: I saw Abu Wa'il and his companions sitting on the day of the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah, conversing among themselves just as they used to on other days.

Abd al-Rahman bin Harmalah saw Sa'id bin al-Musayyib on the afternoon of the day of Arafah leaning his back against the place where the imam stands (the maqsurah) and facing towards Sham, until the sun set.

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Bakrah said: On the afternoon of the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah, no one used to attend the congregational mosque except those who used to attend it before that.

Ibn Awn said: People asked Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) about coming to the mosque on the afternoon of the day of Arafah. He said: I do not see any harm in it. He himself would sit at his home, and his conversation on that afternoon was just as it was on other days.

Al-Hakam and Hammad were asked about gathering on the afternoon of Arafah. Both of them said: It is an innovation (bid'ah).

Ibrahim was asked about the ta'rif (gathering for dhikr on the day of Arafah), and he said: The ta'rif is only at Makkah.

Ibrahim said: The dhikr and gathering of the day of Arafah are to be held in Makkah.

The same is also narrated from al-Sha'bi.

Zubayd said: We used to engage in dhikr on the day of Arafah only in our own mosques.

Ibn al-Hanafiyyah said: The dhikr of the day of Arafah is to be done only in Makkah al-Mukarramah.

Ibrahim said: The day on which it is most fitting for men to keep to their homes is the day of Arafah.

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Sirin: We saw the time of Ziyad, and we did not find the afternoon of the day of Arafah any different from other afternoons.

Amir (al-Sha'bi) and al-Hakam said: Engaging in dhikr and gathering on the day of Arafah is an innovation (bid'ah).

Al-Hasan and Ibn Sirin used not to attend the mosque on the afternoon of Arafah.