The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (923 page)

, ‘circumambulation’ of the Ka‘ba, and of
sa‘y
, ‘running’, and will if possible kiss the
Black Stone
. The
ajj proper begins on the seventh day, with a
khu
ba
(sermon) at the
mosque
. On the eighth day, all pilgrims move eastwards from Mecca, spending that night at Min
or, further on, at
‘Araf
t
. On the ninth day, the central and essential part of
ajj takes place, the
wuq
f
(‘standing’) at ‘Araf
t, before a small hill named Jabal al-Ra
ma. Then pilgrims hurry back to the small town of Muzdalifa within the Meccan boundaries, to stay overnight. On the tenth day, which is
‘Id al-A
, they move to Min
, first to throw seven small stones (see
RAJM
) at a rock called Jamrat al-‘Aqaba, then to perform the ritual
sacrifice
. From Min
the pilgrims return to Mecca to perform another