He also recorded (1), from Ibn ‘Abbās, that he said: “I heard this man whom they claim prohibited tamattu‘ (2)—meaning ‘Umar—say: ‘If I performed ‘umrah and then Hajj, I would perform tamattu‘.’”
Ibn Hazm said (3): “It is authentically established that ‘Umar returned to advocating tamattu‘ after prohibiting it. It is inconceivable that he would return to advocating something he knew on sound evidence (4) to have been abrogated.”
Third: It is inconceivable that he should have forbidden it after someone asked him, “Is it only for that year of theirs, or for all time?” and he replied, “Rather, for all time.” This rules out any notion that it might subsequently be abrogated.
This is one of the rulings that cannot be abrogated: a ruling whose continuity and permanence the truthful and trusted Messenger affirmed, for his declaration cannot prove false.
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The second justification: the claim that this was exclusive to the Companions. They supported this with several arguments:
First: the report narrated by ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydī (5): Sufyān narrated to us, from Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd, from al-Muraqqa‘, from Abū Dharr, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, allowed the conversion of Hajj into ‘umrah exclusively for us.”
Wakī‘ said (6): Mūsā ibn ‘Ubaydah narrated to us; Ya‘qūb ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Abū Dharr, who said: