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220. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS performs the Pilgrimage without indulging in vain talk or committing any default returns from the Pilgrimage as pure as he was on the day his mother bore him (Bokhari and Muslim). 1280. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Umrah followed by another Umrah atones for that which is between the two and the only reward of the Pilgrimage is Paradise (Bokhari and Muslim). 1281. Ayesha relates: I asked the Holy Prophet: Messenger of Allah, we consider that striving in the cause of Allah is the best deed, then shall we not go forth in the cause of Allah? He answered: The best striving in the cause of. Allah for you is the Pilgrimage (Bokhari). 1282. Ayesha relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah does not relieve more people from chastisement of the Fire on any day than on the Day of. Arafat (Muslim). . Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet said: Umrah performed during Ramadhan equals the Pilgrimage (or equals Pilgrimage in my company) (Bokhari and Muslim). 1284. A woman asked the Holy Prophet: Messenger of Allah, the. Pilgrimage has been imposed by Allah on his servants at a time when my father has reached extreme old age and has not the strength to ride an animal. . Shall I perform the Pilgrimage on his behalf? He answered: Yes (Bokhari and. Muslim). 1285. Laqit ibn 'Amir relates that he came to the Holy Prophet and said: My father is a very old man who has not the strength to perform the. Pilgrimage or Umrah or to undertake the journey. The Holy Prophet said:. Perform the Hajj and Umrah on behalf of your father (Abu Daud and. Tirmidhi). 1286. Saib ibn Yazid relates: I was seven years old when I was taken to. Pilgrimage at the same time when the Holy Prophet performed the Pilgrimage (Bokhari). 1287. This hadith is the same as No. 181. 1288. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet performed the Pilgrimage on a camel which also carried his provisions (Bokhari). 1289. Ibn Abbas relates: Ukaz and Majinnah and Zulmajez were trade markets in pre-Islamic days. In Islam people imagined that it would be sinful to carry on trade and commerce during the Pilgrimage, whereupon the verse was revealed: It is no sin for you to seek any of the bounties of your Lord during the days of the Pilgrimage (2. 199) (Bokhari). 233. . On Striving in the Cause of Allah. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 295. Fight the idolators all together, as they fight you all together, and know that Allah is with the righteous (9. 36).