In Sunan Ibn Mājah (1), Jābir reports that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed Hajj alone (2).
In Sahīh Muslim (3), he reports: “We set out with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, intending only Hajj; we knew nothing of ‘umrah.”
In Sahīh al-Bukhārī (4), ‘Urwah ibn al-Zubayr said:
“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed Hajj. ‘Ā’ishah told me that the first thing he did upon arriving in Mecca was to perform ablution and then circumambulate the House [without then converting his pilgrimage into ‘umrah] (5). Then Abū Bakr performed Hajj, and the first thing he did was to circumambulate the House, without then converting his pilgrimage into ‘umrah. ‘Umar did likewise. Then ‘Uthmān performed Hajj, and I saw that the first thing he did was to circumambulate the House, without then converting his pilgrimage into ‘umrah. Then Mu‘āwiyah and ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar did likewise.
“Then I performed Hajj with my father, al-Zubayr (6) ibn al-‘Awwām. The first thing he did was to circumambulate the House, without then converting his pilgrimage into ‘umrah. Then I saw the Emigrants and the Helpers doing the same, without then converting their pilgrimage into ‘umrah. The last person I saw (7) doing this was Ibn ‘Umar, and he did not cancel his Hajj by converting it into ‘umrah (8). [Ibn ‘Umar is there among them, yet they do not ask him] (9), nor any of those who came before. They would not