An old pilgrimage
An old pilgrimage was difficult, it was pilgrims crossing the countryside, deserts and wasteland, despising livers camels for days and nights, maybe months complete, to Mecca to perform the Hajj.
The date was going to be his farewell pilgrimage of hope not to return, and for several reasons, including distance, gravity, and deadly diseases, and the Pilgrim OTOH Hajj three years ago, it starts to collect money and companionship and composite or late processing and intake.
He goes before Hajj for a month or two so that he can arrive on time, and very few transportation and rugged unpaved roads, and the Pilgrim if he returned safely to his family, celebrate and slaughtered animals not because Hajj, but because the Hajj he returned unscathed was not hurt.