on the right side of its hump, wiped the blood away, and hung two sandals around its neck. He then called for his mount, and when it had risen and stood upright with him on the plain of al-Bayḍāʾ he entered iḥrām for ḥajj.

This was also transmitted (1) by Hushaym—our teachers, among them Shuʿbah, conveyed it—whose wording is to the same effect. Aḥmad further related it (2) from Rūḥ, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, and Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ, all from Hishām al-Dastawāʾī, from Qatādah, with a similar report. Through this chain it is recorded by Muslim in his Ṣaḥīḥ and by the authors of the Sunan collections (3).

Thus, the various routes from Ibn ʿAbbās showing that he ﷺ began the talbiyah when his mount had stood upright are sounder and better established than the report of Khuṣayf al-Jazarī from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr from him. Allah knows best.

Likewise, the explicit, firmly authenticated narration that he entered iḥrām once his beast had risen takes precedence over the other report, for it is possible that he assumed iḥrām at the mosque the moment his mount stood, making the account that details his mounting the camel an additional piece of information. Allah knows best.

The report of Anas on this point is free of any contradiction, as is the report of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (4), transmitted through Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq from his father [Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī] Abū (5) al-Ḥusayn Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, from Jābir in his lengthy ḥadīth to be cited later, which states that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ began the talbiyah when his mount had stood upright; this too faces no opposing evidence. Allah knows best.

Al-Bukhārī (6) also reported—through al-Awzāʿī, who said, “I heard ʿAṭāʾ”—from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh that the Messenger of Allah pronounced the talbiyah at Dhū’l-Ḥulayfah when his mount had stood upright with him.

As for the ḥadīth narrated by Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār, from Abū’l-Zinād, from ʿĀʾishah bint Saʿd, who related that Saʿd said: “When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took the road of al-Furʿ (7) he would pronounce the talbiyah once his mount had risen with him, and when he took the road of Uḥud (8) he would pronounce the talbiyah after ascending the rise of al-Bayḍāʾ,” it was recorded by Abū Dāwūd and al-Bayhaqī (9) through Ibn Isḥāq, and it contains elements that are unusual and objectionable.