– Brandishing weapons upon arriving at Tabuk is an innovation. Our Shaykh added: it is forbidden. He went on to say: the tales the ignorant circulate about a “siege of Tabuk” are pure fabrication. ⦗al-Furūʿ 6/76; Ikhtiyārāt al-Baʿlī p. 177⦘.

Fawāt and Iḥṣār (missing the standing at ʿArafah and being impeded)

– If, by mistake, the people stand on the eighth or the tenth, it still suffices; Imām Aḥmad has explicit texts for both cases. Our Shaykh said: Does that mean it is, inwardly, the Day of ʿArafah? There is a difference of opinion on this within the Ḥanbalī school … Elsewhere he noted that two narrations from Aḥmad exist on the matter, and said: the second view is the correct one … Hence it is established that it is the Day of ʿArafah both inwardly and outwardly. ⦗al-Furūʿ 6/79⦘.

– A pilgrim prevented by illness or by the loss of his funds is treated like one blocked by an enemy; this is one of the two narrations from Aḥmad (1). ⦗al-Furūʿ 6/83; Ikhtiyārāt al-Baʿlī p. 377⦘.

Likewise (2): a menstruating woman who could not remain, was barred from ṭawāf, and returned without performing it—whether through ignorance of the obligation of ṭawāf al-ziyārah, because she was unable to do it, or because her companions departed. ⦗Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 26/186-226; al-Furūʿ 6/83; Ikhtiyārāt al-Baʿlī p. 177⦘.