Chapter on the Greater and Lesser Pilgrimages

Hadith.3041 - It is narrated from Mu'awiya ibn Ammar who said: "I asked Abu Abdullah (as) about the Day of the Greater Pilgrimage (Yawm al-Hajj al-Akbar). He said, 'It is the Day of Sacrifice (Yawm al-Nahr), and the Lesser Pilgrimage (al-Asghar) is the Umrah.'"

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Hadith.3042 - It is narrated from Sulaiman ibn Dawood al-Minqari, from Fudhayl ibn Iyadh, from Abu Abdullah (as), in the conclusion of a narration where he said: "It was called the Greater Pilgrimage (Hajj al-Akbar) because it was the year in which both Muslims and polytheists performed Hajj, and after that year, the polytheists no longer performed Hajj."

Translation: Bab Ul Qaim Publications·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.