The Ḥanafīs even extended this ruling to the qārin; it stands as one of the distinctive positions of their school that the qārin must perform two circuits of ṭawāf and two rounds of saʿy. They trace this opinion back to ʿAlī in a mawqūf report, and it has also been related from him in marfūʿ form ascribed to the Prophet ﷺ. We have already discussed all of this under the section on ṭawāf and shown that the chains are weak and run contrary to the sound aḥādīth. Allah knows best.

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Afterwards, the Prophet ﷺ returned to Minā once he had performed the ẓuhr prayer in Mecca, as the ḥadīth of Jābir indicates. Ibn ʿUmar said, “He went back and prayed ẓuhr in Minā.” Both reports are recorded by Muslim, as noted earlier, and they can be reconciled by assuming that the prayer took place in both Mecca and Minā. Allah knows best. Ibn Ḥazm suspended judgment on this matter and did not reach a firm conclusion, and he is excused because two authentic narrations appear to conflict here. Allah knows best.

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrates from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out at the end of that day after he had prayed ẓuhr. He then returned to Minā and stayed there for the nights of the Days of Tashrīq, stoning the jamarāt after the sun had passed its zenith, throwing seven pebbles at each jamrah and saying the takbīr with every pebble.”

Abū Dāwūd alone transmitted this report. It shows that his ﷺ journey to Mecca on the Day of Sacrifice occurred after the sun had declined from its zenith. This clearly conflicts with Ibn ʿUmar’s narration and, though less decisively, may also conflict with Jābir’s account. Allah knows best.

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On that noble day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ delivered a tremendous sermon, the narrations of which have reached the level of tawātur. We shall mention from it what Allah makes easy.

Al-Bukhārī, in the chapter “The Sermon on the Days in Minā,” relates: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd-Allāh told us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd told us; Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān told us; ʿIkrimah told us, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ addressed the people on the Day of Sacrifice, saying:

“O people, what day is this?”
They said, “A sacred day.”
He asked, “What land is this?”
They said, “A sacred land.”
He asked, “What month is this?”
They said, “A sacred month.”
He then declared, “Your blood, your property, and your honor are inviolable to one another, just as the sanctity of this day of yours, in this land of yours, in this month of yours.”

He repeated this several times, then raised his head and said, “O Allah, have I conveyed? O Allah, have I conveyed?”

Ibn ʿAbbās said, “By Him in Whose hand is my soul, it is indeed his counsel to his ummah—so let the one who is present convey it to the one who is absent, and do not revert after me to disbelief, striking …”