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When (1) the Day of Tarwiyah arrives, he enters ihram again and pronounces the talbiyah (2) for Hajj, proceeding exactly as he did at the miqat. If (3) he wishes, he may assume ihram in Mecca itself, and if he prefers (4) he may do so outside of Mecca; this is the correct position. The Companions of the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—entered ihram only from al-Bathāʾ (5), just as he instructed them.
The sunnah is to assume ihram from the place where one is staying—[so the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, also ordered them] (6)—and likewise the native Meccan enters ihram from his own residence, for the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: “Whoever lives within the boundary of Mecca begins his talbiyah from his home; even the people of Mecca themselves begin from there (7).” (8)
(1) In manuscripts A and B the reading is “idha” (when).
(2) The words “wa ahalla” (and he entered ihram) are absent from A and B.
(3) Manuscripts C and D read “wa in”.
(4) Manuscript B adds “ahram” (he began ihram).
(5) Jabir, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, ordered us—after we had left the state of ihram—to re-enter ihram when we set out for Mina. He said: ‘Pronounce the talbiyah in the Bat-ha.’” Related by Muslim (1214) and by al-Bukhari in muʿallaq form (2/160); Ahmad (14 418) records it with the wording: “When you intend to depart for Mina, enter ihram, so we pronounced the talbiyah in al-Bat-ha.” Al-Nawawi explains in Sharh Muslim (4/218) that al-Abtah (also called al-Bat-ha) is the well-known place at the gate of Mecca.
(6) The bracketed passage is missing from C and D.
(7) The phrase “minha” appears in C as “from Mecca” and is omitted in D.
(8) The source for this material was cited earlier, p. 19.