But these two arguments are weak, for he was in fact combining Hajj and ‘umrah (1) when he circumambulated for ‘umrah. His circumambulation for ‘umrah therefore sufficed in place of the arrival circumambulation, just as someone who enters a mosque, finds the congregational prayer underway, and joins it thereby fulfils the purpose of the prayer of greeting the mosque and has no need to offer it separately.
Moreover, when the Companions entered ihram for Hajj with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, they did not circumambulate immediately afterward, although most of them were performing tamattu‘. Al-Hasan (2) narrated from Abū Hanīfah that if (3) a pilgrim enters ihram on the day of al-Tarwiyah before noon, he performs the arrival circumambulation and the walking between al-Safā and al-Marwah; but if he enters ihram after noon, he does not circumambulate. He distinguished between the two times on the grounds that after noon the pilgrim leaves immediately for Minā and should not occupy himself with anything that delays his departure, whereas before noon he does not leave and so circumambulates. The view of Ibn ‘Abbās and the majority is the correct one, consistent (4) with the practice of the Companions. Success comes from Allah.
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The second group said that he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed the walking between al-Safā and al-Marwah along with this circumambulation. They said: “This is evidence that someone combining Hajj and ‘umrah must perform the walking between al-Safā and al-Marwah twice, just as he must circumambulate twice.” This is an erroneous claim about him, as explained earlier. The correct view is that he performed the walking between al-Safā and al-Marwah only once, on the first occasion, as ‘Ā’ishah and Jābir stated. Not a single report that he performed it twice has been authentically established; rather, all such reports are false, as explained earlier. Refer back to that discussion.