Table of the Mecca Pilgrimage of 1880.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Hughes, Thomas Patrick
Malabari from the Cape of Good Hope
150
Persians
6,000
2,500
8,000,000
Indians (British subjects)
15,000
40,000,000
Malays, chiefly from Java and Dutch subjects
12,000
30,000,000
Chinese
100
15,000,000
Mongols from the Khanates, included in the Ottoman Haj
6,000,000
Lazis, Circassians, Tartars, &c. (Russian subjects), included in the Ottoman Haj
5,000,000
Independent Afghans and Beluchis, included in the Indian and Persian Hajs
3,000,000
Total of pilgrims present at Arafat
93,250.
Total Census of Islam
175,000,000
ḤAJJATU ʾL-WADĀʿ (حجة الوداع). The last or farewell pilgrimage performed by Muḥammad, and which is taken as the model of an orthodox ḥajj. It is called the Ḥajju ʾl-Akbar, or Greater Pilgrimage, in the Qurʾān, Sūrah ix. 3. (See Mishkāt, book xi. ch. iii., and Muir’s Life of Mahomet.) It is supposed to have commenced February 23, A.D. 632.
ḤAJJ MABRŪR (حج مبرور). An approved or accepted pilgrimage (Mishkāt, book xi. ch. i. pt. 2). A pilgrimage to Makkah performed according to the conditions of Muslim law.
ḤAKAM (حكم). An arbitrator appointed by a qāẓī to settle disputes. It is not lawful to appoint either a slave or an unbeliever, or a slanderer, or an infant, as an arbitrator. (Hidāyah, vol. ii. p. 638.)
According to the Qurʾān, Sūrah iv. 39, domestic quarrels should be settled by an arbitrator:—“If ye fear a breach between the two (i.e. husband and wife) then appoint an arbitrator from his people, and an arbitrator from her people.”
Al-Ḥakam, the Arbitrator, is one of the ninety-nine attributes of God, although it is not so employed in the Qurʾān.