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Chapter on the Greater and Lesser Pilgrimages

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في آخر حديث يقول فيه‌ إنما سمي الحج الأكبر لأنها كانت سنة حج فيها المسلمون و المشركون و لَمْ يَحُجَّ الْمُشْرِكُونَ بَعْدَ تِلْكَ السَّنَةِ.

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 p