Anas that “he continued to perform qunūt until he departed this world”: despite its weak chain of transmission and its absence from the Sunan collections, it speaks only of qunūt before bowing.

In the Sahīh collections, Anas is reported to have said:

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed qunūt after bowing for only one month.”

Qunūt before bowing means prolonged standing, for the word qunūt signifies sustained obedience. It may therefore occur during prostration or during standing, as we have explained elsewhere.

As for the Farewell Pilgrimage, although many people have found it confusing, their confusion arose only from terms bearing more than one meaning. They heard some Companions say that he performed tamattu‘, joining ‘umrah to Hajj. Yet these same Companions also say that he performed Hajj alone, while some say that he combined ‘umrah with Hajj. There is no disagreement here. They did not disagree that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, remained in his state of ihrām, that he had brought the sacrificial animals with him and slaughtered them on the Day of Sacrifice, and that neither he nor any of his Companions performed ‘umrah after Hajj that year, except ‘Ā’ishah. He instructed her brother to take her to perform ‘umrah from al-Tan‘īm, the nearest point outside the Sacred Precinct.

Likewise, the authentic hadiths about him state that he traversed the course between al-Safā and al-Marwah only once, in conjunction with his initial circumambulation. Those who reported that he performed Hajj alone spoke truthfully, because he performed a single set of Hajj rites and did not combine