Baytuta in Mina: Difference between revisions

'''Baytūta in Minā''' ({{ia|البيتوتة في منی}}, Staying at Minā during the night) is the twelfth obligation of hajj and the fourth act at Minā.

It is obligatory to spend the night before [[11th of Dhu l-Hijja|11th]] and [[12th of Dhu l-Ḥijja]] at Minā. Therefore, if a person goes to the holy city of [[Mecca]] from Minā on the day of [[Eid al-Adha]] in order to perform ṭawāf al-zīyāra and ṭawāf al-Nisāʾ, and their prayers and saʿy (see [[Practices of Hajj in Mecca]]), he/she should return to spend the night at Minā.

Spending the night at Minā is not mandatory for the following three groups:

Spending night at Minā is an act of worship and should be performed with the correct [[intention]].  

Spending night from sunset to the middle of night is adequate. Those who do not observe spending night in first part of the night without a genuine excuse, should spend the second half of the night at Minā.

Whoever neglects the obligatory spending night at Minā without spending night for worship in the holy city of Mecca must pay [[kaffāra]] i.e. a sheep for each night. On the [[basis of caution]], this ruling is applied to excused, ignorant, and forgetful people as well.  

Whoever is allowed to go out of Minā on the 12th day of Dhu l-Hijja should go out after sharʿī noon and it is not permissible for him to exit before noon.