– Qirān is superior to tamattuʿ when the pilgrim has brought the sacrificial animal, and this is one of the two reports from Aḥmad (1). ⦗Zād al-Maʿād 2/133; al-Furūʿ 5/334⦘
– For the person who reaches Mecca during the months of Hajj, the preferable course is one of two: either he drives the hady and remains in iḥrām like a qārin, or he comes without the hady, performs an ʿumrah, exits iḥrām and later begins his Hajj as a mutamattiʿ. What must be said, however, is that the choice Allah made for His Prophet is the better of the two. ⦗Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 26/90-286⦘
– As for ʿUthmān’s statement (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning the mutʿah of Hajj—“It was for them, not for others”—its ruling is the same as the statement of Abū Dharr. The reports from Abū Dharr and ʿUthmān can be interpreted in three ways… the second being that its obligation was confined to the Companions, and this was the view held by our Shaykh, may Allah sanctify his soul. ⦗Zād al-Maʿād 2/179⦘
– Revoking one’s Hajj in favour of ʿumrah accords with the principles of analogy; it is not at odds with them. Even if no textual evidence had existed, analogy itself would still point to its permissibility, and the text in fact came exactly in line with the analogy. Shaykh al-Islām stated this and explained it by saying that when a person in iḥrām