only in order to busy themselves with other forms of remembrance, not because dropping it was meant as an independent ruling. Al-Bayhaqī substantiates al-Ṭaḥāwī’s view with the report he narrates from Ibn Masʿūd: “I set out with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from Minā to ʿArafah, and he did not stop reciting the talbiyah until he stoned Jamrat al-ʿAqabah, except that he would mix it with takbīr (saying ‘Allāhu akbar’) and tahlīl (saying ‘Lā ilāha illā Allāh’).”