so when ʿAlī saw this he entered consecration for both rites and pronounced, “Here I am for an ʿUmrah and a Ḥajj!” He added, “I will never abandon the Sunnah of the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—for anyone’s opinion.”
Al-Nasāʾī likewise recorded the report through Shuʿbah, and through al-Aʿmash from Muslim al-Baṭīn, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, with the same wording.
Imām Aḥmad said: “Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar related to us, Shuʿbah related to us, from Qatādah, who said that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq said: ‘ʿUthmān used to forbid the mutʿah, while ʿAlī ordered people to perform it. ʿUthmān said to ʿAlī, “You are such and such….” ʿAlī replied, “You know very well that we practiced tamattuʿ with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.” ʿUthmān said, “Indeed, but we were afraid.”’ Muslim also transmitted it through Shuʿbah.”
This, then, is ʿUthmān’s own acknowledgement of what ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with them both—had narrated. It is also well known that in the Year of the Farewell Pilgrimage ʿAlī entered iḥrām with the same talbiyah as the Prophet ﷺ, having driven the sacrificial animals with him. The Prophet ﷺ instructed him to remain in that state and included him in his own sacrificial animals, as will be explained later.
Mālik reports in the Muwaṭṭaʾ, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, that al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad came to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib at al-Suqyā while ʿAlī was kneading some balls of flour mixed with khabaṭ leaves for his camels. Al-Miqdād said, “ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān is forbidding the combining of Ḥajj and ʿUmrah.” ʿAlī immediately went out—the traces of flour and khabaṭ still visible on his arm; I can still picture them on his forearms—entered upon ʿUthmān and said, “Are you forbidding the combining of Ḥajj and ʿUmrah?” ʿUthmān replied, “That is merely my opinion.” ʿAlī left, angered, proclaiming, “Here I am, O Allah, here I am—for both Ḥajj and ʿUmrah together!”
Abū Dāwūd also says in his Sunan: “Yahya ibn Maʿīn narrated to us; Ḥajjāj narrated to us; Yūnus narrated to us; from …”