This indicates that the Prophet ﷺ personally carried out the marking and garlanding of this particular sacrificial camel with his own blessed hand, while someone else handled the marking and garlanding of the remaining animals. The offering was large—about one hundred camels, or slightly fewer. He ﷺ slaughtered sixty-three camels with his noble hand, then handed the knife to ʿAlī, who slaughtered the rest (1).

In Jābir’s ḥadīth it is reported that ʿAlī arrived from Yemen with sacrificial camels for the Prophet ﷺ. Ibn Isḥāq’s narration adds that the Prophet ﷺ made ʿAlī a partner in his sacrificial animals—Allah knows best. Others relate that the Prophet and ʿAlī together slaughtered one hundred camels on the Day of Sacrifice. If so, he must have driven them from Dhūl-Ḥulayfah, though he may also have bought some later while still in iḥrām.

Chapter: Clarifying the place from which the Prophet ﷺ entered iḥrām, the variations among the transmitters on this point, and establishing the correct view

Earlier we cited the ḥadīth recorded by al-Bukhārī (2), transmitted through al-Awzāʿī, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from ʿUmar, who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the valley of al-ʿAqīq saying: ‘A messenger from my Lord came to me and said: Pray in this blessed valley and declare: “ʿUmrah within Ḥajj.”’”

Al-Bukhārī also said (3), under the heading “Entering iḥrām beside the mosque of Dhūl-Ḥulayfah”: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us; Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah narrated to us; I heard Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh (I heard Ibn ʿUmar) (4)… And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, that he heard his father say, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered iḥrām only from right beside the mosque”—meaning the mosque of Dhūl-Ḥulayfah.

All the major compilers except Ibn Mājah have transmitted this report through various chains from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah (5). Muslim (6) relates it as well, through Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from Sālim, Nāfiʿ, and Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar—all three reporting from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar—giving the same account.