and had not yet circumambulated the House when I began menstruating. I performed all the rites.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her on the day of departure, “Your circumambulation suffices for both your Hajj and your ‘umrah.”

These reports explicitly establish that she was performing both Hajj and ‘umrah, not Hajj alone. They also explicitly establish that (1) one who combines Hajj and ‘umrah in a single ihrām needs only one circumambulation and one passage between al-Safā and al-Marwah. They further establish that she did not abandon her ihrām for ‘umrah, but remained in it without coming out of it. In some versions of the hadith (2), he said, “Remain in your ‘umrah; perhaps Allah will grant you its completion.” This does not contradict his words, “Leave aside your ‘umrah.” Had he meant that she should abandon it altogether, he would not have said to her, “Your circumambulation suffices for both your Hajj and your ‘umrah.” Thus, what he meant was to leave aside its rites, not to abandon her ihrām for it.

As for his words, “Undo your hair and comb it,” this has greatly perplexed scholars, who have taken four (3) approaches to it:

The first is that it proves she abandoned her ‘umrah, as the Hanafīs maintain.

The second approach is that it proves a person in ihrām may comb their hair. There is no evidence in the Quran, the Sunnah, or scholarly consensus that forbids this or declares it unlawful. This is the view of Ibn Hazm and others.

The third approach is to identify a defect in this wording and reject it on the grounds that ‘Urwah alone transmitted it,