On the day of ' Arafat, when the sun declined at midday I came and shouted near Al-Hajjaj's cotton (cloth) tent. Al-Hajjaj came out, wrapping himself with a waist-sheet dyed with safflower, and said, "O Abu Abdur-! What is the matter?" I said, If you want to follow the Sunna (legal way) of the Prophet (ﷺ) then proceed (to ' Arafat) " Al-Hajjaj asked, At this very hour?" The subnarrator Sâlim added: Ibn 'Umar said, "Yes." He replied, "Please wait for me till I pour some water over my head (i.e. take a bath) and come out." Then Ibn 'Umar dismounted and waited till Al-Hajjaj came out. Sâlim added: So, he (Al-Hajjaj) walked in between me and my father (Ibn Umar). I said to him, "If you want to follow the Sunna (legal way) of the Prophet (ﷺ) then deliver a brief Khutba (religious talk) and hurry up for the stay at Arafât. He started looking at 'Abdullâh (Ibn 'Umar) (inquiringly), and when Abdullâh noticed that, he said that he had told the truth. ' Abdul Mâlik wrote to Al-Hajjaj that he should not differ from Ibn 'Umar during Ḥajj. [2:722-O.B.]