on the Day of Sacrifice, then prayed the noon prayer in Minā”? That is, upon returning. How can a hadith whose inclusion was agreed upon by the compilers of the Sahīh collections compare with one whose admissibility as evidence is disputed? And Allah knows best.
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Ibn Hazm said (1): Umm Salamah performed circumambulation that day on her camel, behind the people, while she was unwell. She sought the Prophet’s permission that day, and he granted it. He supported this with the report narrated by Muslim in his Sahīh (2), through Zaynab bint Umm Salamah, from Umm Salamah, who said:
“I complained to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that I was unwell. He said, ‘Perform circumambulation behind the people while riding.’” She said: “So I performed circumambulation while the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was praying beside (3) the House, reciting: ‘By the Mount (1), and by a Book inscribed’ [al-Tūr: 1–2].”
It is not clear that this circumambulation was the principal Hajj circumambulation, tawāf al-ifādah. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did not recite Sūrat al-Tūr in the two units of prayer associated with that circumambulation, nor did he recite aloud during the day so that Umm Salamah could hear him from behind the people. Abū Muhammad explained the error of those who said that he delayed it until night, and he was correct in doing so. He himself (4) also authenticated the hadith of ‘Ā’ishah stating that (5) the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent Umm Salamah ahead on the night preceding the Day of Sacrifice. She stoned the pillar before dawn, then went on to perform the Hajj circumambulation (6). How, then, can this be reconciled with