The term nusuk occurs even in the Qur'an in Sura 2:196, where it refers to a sacrifice that has to be made as a substitute if the pilgrim prematurely cuts his hair.
In the first passage, Quran 2:128, Abraham addresses the petition to God to show him and his Muslim offspring the rites (manasik).
In the second passage, Sura 2:200, believers are called upon to commemorate the manasik of God, as they had inherited thought of their fathers.
[5] One of the earliest monographic treatises on the entirety of the pilgrimage rites is the Kitāb al-Manāsik of Qatāda ibn Diʿāma [de] (died 735/6).
As reported by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, who was in Mecca at the end of the 19th century, the Manasik were taught to the pilgrims in their own colleges before the pilgrimage began.