Ibn Isḥāq said (1): Those very Muslims who had been turned back with him during that former ʿUmrah—this was in the seventh year AH—set out with him again. When the people of Mecca heard of his advance they withdrew, and Quraysh began telling one another that Muḥammad and his Companions were in want, exhaustion, and hardship.

Ibn Isḥāq also said (2): A narrator whom I do not suspect told me, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, that they lined up for him by Dār al-Nadwah so they could watch him and his Companions. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the Mosque, he bared his right arm by passing his cloak beneath it and said, “May Allah have mercy on the man who shows them strength from himself today.” He then touched the Corner, set off at a jog, and his Companions jogged with him. When the House concealed him from their view and he had touched the Yemeni Corner, he walked until he reached the Black Stone, after which he jogged in the same manner for three circuits and walked the remaining four.

Ibn ʿAbbās used to say: People assumed later that this practice was not required of them; the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had done it only for this clan of Quraysh because of what had reached him about them. Yet when he performed the Farewell Pilgrimage he kept to it, and so it became a Sunnah.

Al-Bukhārī said (3): Sulaimān ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Ḥammād—that is, Ibn Zayd—narrated to us, from Ayyūb, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions arrived, and the idolaters said, “A delegation is coming upon you weakened by the fever of Yathrib.” The Prophet ﷺ therefore ordered them to jog in the first three circuits and to walk between the two Corners; nothing prevented him from commanding them to jog all seven except his compassion for them.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh added: Ibn Salamah—meaning Ḥammād ibn Salamah—related from Ayyūb, from Saʿīd, from Ibn ʿAbbās that when the Prophet ﷺ came in the year for which he had secured the truce, he said, “Jog, so that the idolaters may behold your strength,” while the idolaters were on the side of Qāʿiqiʿān.

Muslim transmitted it (4) through Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī from Ḥammād ibn Zayd, and al-Bayhaqī (5) recorded the chain of Ḥammād ibn Salamah as well.

Al-Bukhārī further said (6): ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, Sufyān narrated to us, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid—who heard Ibn Abī Awfā—said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ʿUmrah, we shielded him from the youngsters of the idolaters and from the idolaters themselves, lest they harm the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Further details on this scene will appear later.

Ibn Isḥāq said (7): ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr related to me that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered Mecca for that ʿUmrah he did so while ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah held the halter of his she-camel, reciting—in rajaz verse: