Return
to the first house.
الحج
"And proclaim among the people the pilgrimage — they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel, from every distant path." The rites as the Prophet ﷺ performed them, and the inner journey the classical scholars traced under every outward step.
Before you pack the bag.
The Farewell Ḥajj.
The Prophet's ﷺ only full pilgrimage, preserved in Ibn Hishām's canonical sīrah and retold by Ibn Kathīr from the authentic narrations — the marching order, the sermons, the final duʿāʾ at ʿArafah.
Ibn Hishām → · Ibn Kathīr →Al-Ghazali on the secrets of Ḥajj.
The book of Ḥajj in the Iḥyāʾ is not a manual of fiqh — it is the commentary on the pilgrim's heart that should accompany every rite.
Read al-Ghazali →Passages across the library.
Every time the library mentions the Kaʿba, ʿArafah, the Black Stone, or the white garment of iḥrām — gathered on one page for the pilgrim to carry.
Open the topic page →Makkah across six centuries ago.
The fourteenth-century traveler performed Ḥajj multiple times in thirty years of wandering. His descriptions of the Sacred Mosque are an irreplaceable window.
Ibn Baṭṭūṭa in Makkah →The last testament.
"O people, your Lord is one, your father is one. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab — except by taqwā."
Going this year?
Leave your email. We'll send the Ḥajj reading packet — Ibn Kathīr's Sīrah chapters on the Farewell Pilgrimage, al-Ghazālī on the rites, and selected duʿāʾ — before you board.