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 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan State | 45 | -5 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Illinois C | 45 | -5 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | Alberta | 48 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago B | 53 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty A | 60 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois 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 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | William & Mary | 85 | -5 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW B | 85 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Oxford B | 85 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 85 | 10 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | Columbia B | 85 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Cambridge E | 90 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 90 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Case Western B | 123 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Georgetown A | 123 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell C | 123 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | John Jay College | 124 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State A | 127 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown B | 127 | 10 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 127 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | ASU | 127 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Durham | 127 | 10 |
| Elijah O’Sick Johnson | Binghamton A | RIT B | 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 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Louisville A | 135 | 10 |
| Freddie O'Hara | UCLA | Claremont A | 135 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Columbia C | 137 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 142 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Virginia Tech A | 145 | 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 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Notre Dame B | 146 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame A | 146 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCLA | 146 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UC Berkeley A | 146 | 10 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas 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 |