I read aloud to ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf, the ḥāfiẓ (1), and to Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faqīh. The ḥāfiẓ, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī al-Mundhirī, conveyed to both of you, saying:
ʿAlī ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, the ḥāfiẓ, transmitted to us from my own memorisation; Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī related it to us verbatim; the Imām, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī—known as Ilkiyā (2)—communicated it to us in his very words in Baghdad; Imām al-Ḥaramayn Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī informed us; my father, Abū Muḥammad the jurist, informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Qazwīnī also informed us; and Muḥammad ibn al-Khāzin narrated to us. (ḥ)
Ibn al-Faqīh, Ibn Musharraf, and Wazīrah (3) likewise informed us, saying: Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubaydī informed us. They said: Abū Zurʿah Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī informed us; Makkī ibn ʿAllān informed us; and they added: The judge, Abū Bakr, informed us.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Begin your intention (*ihlal*) for the Pilgrimage as an *umrah*, except those who have garlanded their sacrificial animals.” We therefore circumambulated the Kaaba and performed sa‘i between Safa and Marwa; we were intimate with our wives and put on ordinary clothes. He added: “Whoever has garlanded his *hadi* (sacrificial animal) must not come out of the state of *ihram* until the *hadi* reaches its place.” Then, on the afternoon of the Day of Tarwiyah, he ordered us to enter into *ihram* for the Pilgrimage. After completing all the rites we returned, circumambulated the House and performed sa‘i between Safa and Marwa, and thus our Pilgrimage was completed.
(1) As recorded in the author’s *Mashyakha*, fol. 86/2: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin b. Khalaf b. Abī al-Hasan b. Sharf, the erudite ḥāfiẓ and proof-authority, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Nūbī al-Shāfiʿī, was one of the eminent imams and the last of the great hadith critics. Born in 613/1216, he first mastered fiqh in Damietta, then pursued hadith in 636/1238. He travelled widely and heard from some 1,250 shaykhs, among them ʿAlī b. Mukhtār, Manṣūr b. al-Dabbāgh, Yūsuf b. al-Mukhtalī, Ibn al-Maqarr, ʿAlī b. Zayd al-Tassāʾusī; in Damascus from ʿUmar b. al-Baradaʿī and Ibn Muslimah; in Aleppo from Ibn Rawāḥa and Ibn Khalīl; in Ḥamāh from Ṣafiyyah al-Qurashiyyah; in Mardin from ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Nashtīrī; in Baghdad from Abū Naṣr b. al-ʿAlīq, Ibn al-Khayr, Ibn Qumayrah and his brother Aḥmad; as well as in Harran, Sinjar, Mosul and the Two Sanctuaries. His meticulously-edited writings cover hadith, high-level isnads, language and fiqh; he also compiled a collection of forty hadith with variant chains from the scholars of Baghdad according to the criteria of the *Sahih*, and authored a one-volume *Sirah Nabawiyyah*. Leading scholars transmitted from him. He died suddenly in Dhu al-Qaʿdah 705/1306 in Cairo, leaving behind many merits.
(2) Ibn Khallikan notes in *Wafayat al-Aʿyan*, 3/289, that in a non-Arabic tongue the word *ilika* denotes “a person of high rank and precedence among the people.”
(3) She is Sitt al-Wuzarāʾ, daughter of the judge ʿUmar b. Asʿad al-Tanūkhiyyah.