in the mosque, then mounted al-Qaswā. When his she-camel stood with him on al-Baydā’, I saw riders and people on foot stretching as far as I could see ahead of him (1), and just as many to his right, to his left, and behind him. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was among us; the Quran was being revealed to him, and he knew its meaning. Whatever he acted upon, we acted upon. He then recited the talbiyah, proclaiming Allah’s oneness: ‘Here I am, O Allah, here I am. Here I am; You have no partner; here I am. All praise, blessing, and sovereignty belong to You. You have no partner.’ The people recited the talbiyah they customarily used, while the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, adhered to his own talbiyah.”
Jābir thus reported that he added nothing to this talbiyah. He did not mention that he added any reference to Hajj, ‘umrah, or qirān—the combination of the two. None of these explanations contradicts the hadiths specifying the rite with which (2) he initially entered ihrām, namely qirān.
As for the hadith of Tāwūs, its chain is disconnected and cannot be set against the firmly established reports with connected chains. Nor is any authentic or sound connected chain known for it. Even if it were authentic, his waiting for the divine ruling would have occurred before he reached the place appointed for entering ihrām. The ruling came to him while he was in that valley: a messenger came to him from his Lord and said, “Pray in this blessed valley and say: ‘An ‘umrah combined with Hajj.’” Thus, the ruling he awaited reached him before he entered ihrām and specified qirān for him.
Tāwūs’s statement, “The ruling was revealed to him while he was between al-Safā and al-Marwah,” refers to a different ruling from the one revealed to him concerning his entry into ihrām, for that was in the valley of al-‘Aqīq. The ruling revealed to him between al-Safā and al-Marwah concerned changing Hajj into ‘umrah, which he instructed his Companions to do. At that point, he instructed everyone who did not have with him (3)