Donning Ihram from the Designated Places
① Narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās (RA):
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ specified Dhū al-Ḥulayfah for the people of Madinah, Juhfah for the people of Shām, Qarn al-Manāzil for the people of Najd, and Yalamlam for the people of Yemen. These Mawāqīt are for the residents of these regions and also for anyone who passes through these routes intending Hajj or ʿUmrah.
[Bukhārī: 1526, Kitāb al-Ḥajj: Bāb Muhall Ahl al-Shām; Muslim: 1181; Abū Dāwūd: 1738; al-Nasāʾī: 5/123; al-Dārimī: 1/361; Aḥmad: 1/238; Ibn Khuzaymah: 4/158; al-Dāraqutnī: 2/237]
② Narrated from ʿĀʾishah (RA):
The Prophet ﷺ designated Dhāt ʿIrq as the Miqāt for the people of ʿIrāq.
[Sahih: Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl: 999; Abū Dāwūd: 1739; al-Nasāʾī: 5/125; Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār: 2/118; al-Dāraqutnī: 2/236]
③ In another narration in Sahih Muslim, the designation of Dhāt ʿIrq for the people of ʿIrāq is also mentioned.
[Muslim: 1183, Kitāb al-Ḥajj: Bāb Mawāqīt al-Ḥajj wa al-ʿUmrah]
④ In Sahih Bukhārī, it is stated that ʿUmar (RA) designated Dhāt ʿIrq as Miqāt.
[Bukhārī: 1531]
Scholars who attribute the designation to ʿUmar (RA) might not have received the earlier marfūʿ narration or considered it weak. However, the stronger opinion is that the authentic hadith proves that the Prophet ﷺ himself designated Dhāt ʿIrq.
As for the narration from Ibn ʿAbbās (RA) that the Prophet ﷺ designated al-ʿAqīq as the Miqāt for the people of the east — it is weak.
[Daʿīf: Daʿīf Abū Dāwūd: 381; Daʿīf Tirmidhī: 140; Mishkāt: 2530; Aḥmad: 3205; Abū Dāwūd: 1740; Tirmidhī: 832; al-Bayhaqī: 5/28]
Note:
Whoever does not pass directly through one of the specified Mawāqīt should assume Ihram from a point parallel to the nearest Miqāt. All scholars agree upon this principle.
