The statement, “I walked between Safā and Marwa before circumambulating the Kaaba,” is not reliably preserved in this hadith. The reliably preserved account concerns (1) performing the casting of the pebbles, slaughtering the sacrifice, and shaving the head in different orders.

He then went to the place of sacrifice at Minā and slaughtered sixty-three sacrificial camels with his own hand (2). He slaughtered them standing, with their left forelegs bound (3). The number he slaughtered corresponded to the years of his life, peace and blessings be upon him. He then stopped and instructed ʿAlī to slaughter the remainder of the hundred. He instructed ʿAlī to distribute their coverings, hides, and meat as charity among the poor, and not to give the butcher any part of them as payment for his work (4). He said: “We will pay him ourselves.” He also said: “Whoever wishes may cut off a portion” (5).

If it is asked: How, then, do you account for the hadith in the two Sahīh collections (6), in which Anas said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, offered the noon prayer in Medina as four units, and the afternoon prayer at Dhū al-Hulayfa as two. He spent the night there, and in the morning mounted his riding camel and began declaring Allah’s oneness and glorifying Him. When he reached the elevated plain of al-Baydāʾ, he recited the talbiya (pilgrimage invocation) (7) for both rites together. When he entered Mecca, he instructed them to leave the state of pilgrimage consecration, and slaughtered