Imām Aḥmad relates[1]: Hushaym narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād narrated from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ṭawāf of the Kaʿbah while mounted on a camel and touched the Black Stone with a hooked staff (miḥjan) he was carrying. He then came to the Siqāyah and said, “Give me something to drink.” They replied, “This water has been stirred by the people’s hands, but we can bring you some from the house.” He said, “I have no need of that—give me to drink from what the people are drinking.”

Abū Dāwūd likewise transmitted[2]—through Musaddad, from Khālid al-Ṭaḥḥān, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās—who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Mecca while we were drawing water, so he performed ṭawāf on his mount …” and he mentioned the remainder of the report.

Imām Aḥmad also said[4]: Rūḥ and ʿAffān narrated to us; they both said: Ḥammād narrated to us, from Qays—and ʿAffān in his version said, “Qays informed us”—from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “The Prophet ﷺ came to Zamzam. We drew a bucket for him and he drank from it. He then rinsed his mouth in the bucket and spat the water back, after which we poured it into Zamzam. He said, ‘Were it not that you would be crowded out, I would draw the water myself with my own hand.’” This report is unique to Aḥmad, and its chain meets the criteria of Muslim.

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The Prophet ﷺ did not repeat the going between Ṣafā and Marwah a second time; his first circuit sufficed. Muslim records in his Ṣaḥīḥ[5]—through Ibn Jurayj, who said: Abū al-Zubayr informed me—that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: “Neither the Prophet ﷺ nor his Companions performed more than one circuit between Ṣafā and Marwah.”

I say: The Companions intended here are those who had driven their sacrificial animals and were performing qirān. For it is authentically established in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim[6] that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to ʿĀʾishah—who had combined ḥajj with ʿumrah and thus became a qārin—“Your ṭawāf of the House and between Ṣafā and Marwah suffices for both your ḥajj and your ʿumrah.” According to the followers of Imām Aḥmad, Jābir’s wording applies generally to those performing qirān as well as to those performing tamattuʿ. Accordingly, Imām Aḥmad expressly ruled that a mutamattiʿ needs only one ṭawāf for his ḥajj and his ʿumrah, even if he exits iḥrām in between. This is an unusual view, its basis being the apparent generality of the ḥadīth—and Allah knows best.

The Ḥanafī jurists—concurred with by the Mālikīs and Shāfiʿīs—maintain that the mutamattiʿ is obliged to perform two ṭawāfs and two saʿys,