Chapter on Qirān

In our view, qirān (combining the ʿumrah and the hajj in one state of consecration) is superior to both tamattuʿ and ifrād.

The procedure for qirān is as follows: the pilgrim enters iḥrām for the ʿumrah and the hajj together at the mīqāt, then, after his prayer, says, “O Allah, I intend the hajj and the ʿumrah; make them easy for me and accept them from me.”

When he reaches Mecca he begins with seven circuits around the House, jogging during the first three, and then performs saʿy between al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah; these constitute the rites of the ʿumrah. After that saʿy he performs the circumambulation of arrival (ṭawāf al-qudūm) and a further saʿy between al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah, exactly as we have set out for the single hajj-performer (mufrid).

Once he has stoned the jamrah on the Day of Sacrifice, he slaughters a sheep, or a cow, or a camel, or one-seventh of a camel; this is the prescribed sacrificial blood for qirān. If he possesses nothing to slaughter, he must fast three days during the hajj, the last of them being the Day of ʿArafah. Should the Day of Sacrifice arrive before he has completed that fast, only the animal sacrifice will avail. Thereafter he fasts seven more days when he returns to his family, though performing those seven days in Mecca after finishing the hajj is also acceptable.

If the qārin does not enter Mecca at all but proceeds directly to ʿArafāt, he has thereby abandoned his ʿumrah by making the standing there. In that case the blood-sacrifice of qirān is no longer due; instead, a penalty is incurred for abandoning the ʿumrah, and he must perform it at a later time.