al-A‘rāf, 28)

Their statement, “Allah has commanded us to do it,” implies that they practised it as part of their religion, regarding it as worship and obedience. Thus, the Arab polytheists used to circumambulate the House naked, saying, “We will not circumambulate in clothes in which we have disobeyed Allah.” The exception was the Hums—Quraysh and their allies—who circumambulated in their clothes. Others might circumambulate in clothes belonging to a member of the Hums if they could obtain them; otherwise, they circumambulated naked. Even a woman would circumambulate naked, sometimes covering her private parts with her hand and saying:

“Today some or all of it is exposed;
Whatever is exposed, I do not make lawful.”

Anyone among the Hums who circumambulated in his own clothes would cast them aside. These were therefore called “cast-offs” and became forbidden to him.

While in ihrām, they also refrained from eating the fat of livestock. Thus, when the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, conquered Mecca and undertook the campaign to Tabūk