the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ talbiyah went, and afterwards I heard her herself proclaiming: “Here I am, O Allah, here I am …,” and so on.¹
Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad said: Muʿāwiyah departed on the Night of Departure and heard a voice reciting the talbiyah. He asked, “Who is that?” They replied, “ʿĀʾishah, Mother of the Believers; she has entered into ʿumrah from Tanʿīm.” When this was reported to ʿĀʾishah she said, “Had he asked me, I would have told him.”²
18- The pilgrim should keep to the talbiyah, for it is “one of the rites of the pilgrimage,”³ and because the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whenever anyone making talbiyah raises his voice, everything to his right and to his left—tree or stone—responds with the talbiyah until the ground on both sides is exhausted,” meaning to his right and his left.⁴ He should do so particularly whenever he climbs a rise or descends a valley, in light of the ḥadīth cited a little earlier: “It is as though I can see Moses, peace be upon him, coming down the pass, fervently calling upon Allah with the talbiyah.” In another narration: “It is as though I can see him when he descends into the valley, making talbiyah.”⁵
19- He may also alternate it with the talbiyah and the tahlil (the declaration ‘There is no god but Allah’) on account of Ibn Masʿūd’s, may Allah be pleased with him, statement: