The “reliance” of a person performing this type of action titles an influential fiqh manual by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri. People performing this type of action are allowed to do wudu without removing a certain article of clothing for three days and nights. The final asnaf, or category of person eligible to receive zakat, are people performing this type of action, ibn al-sabeel. The second month of the Islamic calendar is named for this type of action, during which many people perform this action for Arba’in. By the practice of qasr, Muslims are allowed to shorten their prayers while performing this type of action, known as safar in Arabic. A form of this action that can be taken at any time of the year is known as umrah. For 10 points, Muslims are obligated to perform what action to reach Mecca as part of the hajj? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 133.33 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 80% | 138.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 129.33 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 111.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 116.33 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 134.40 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 136.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.50 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.40 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 97.50 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 126.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Zhu | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan D | 30 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Kenyon | 37 | -5 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 42 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington A | 42 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Illinois C | 45 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan State | 45 | -5 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | Alberta | 48 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago B | 53 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois A | 60 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty A | 60 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Iowa | 61 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 62 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 76 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Penn A | 76 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Maryland B | 77 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick A | 83 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW B | 85 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 85 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | William & Mary | 85 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Oxford B | 85 | 10 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | Columbia B | 85 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 90 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Cambridge E | 90 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 99 | 10 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | Virginia A | 100 | -5 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 101 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Indiana B | 106 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 108 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | Vassar A | 108 | 10 |
| Drew Scheiner | Missouri | Chicago C | 115 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Georgetown A | 123 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell C | 123 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Case Western B | 123 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | John Jay College | 124 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown B | 127 | 10 |
| Elijah O’Sick Johnson | Binghamton A | RIT B | 127 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State A | 127 | -5 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | ASU | 127 | 10 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 127 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Durham | 127 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | ESF A | 129 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 130 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Purdue | 130 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 130 | -5 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Haverford B | 131 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Liberty B | 133 | 10 |
| Freddie O'Hara | UCLA | Claremont A | 135 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Louisville A | 135 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Columbia C | 137 | 10 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Michigan A | 137 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Liberty C | 137 | -5 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | NYU C | 137 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 142 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Virginia Tech A | 145 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCLA | 146 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UC Berkeley A | 146 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Notre Dame B | 146 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame A | 146 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Wake Forest | 146 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | Missouri S&T | 146 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois B | 146 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | WashU A | 146 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon A | 146 | 10 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Carnegie Mellon B | 146 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Duke | 146 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | UNC D | 146 | 10 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas A | 146 | 10 |