may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ‘Did the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, enter the House during his umrah?’ He replied, ‘No.’”

In the two Sahīhs, Mutarrif ibn al-Shikhkhīr reported:

“‘Imrān ibn Husayn said to me: ‘I shall relate a hadith to you through which Allah may benefit you: the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, combined his Hajj and umrah. He never prohibited this before he died, nor was any Quranic revelation sent down forbidding it.’”

In another version, he said:

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed tamattu, and we performed it with him.”

Thus ‘Imrān, one of the most eminent of the earliest Muslims, reported that he performed tamattu and combined Hajj and umrah. In Sahīh Muslim, Ghunaym ibn Qays reported:

“I asked Sa‘d ibn Abī Waqqās about tamattu in Hajj. He said: ‘We performed it while this man was still an unbeliever in the dwellings’—meaning the houses of Mecca. By ‘this man’ he meant Mu‘āwiya.”

Sa‘d meant only the compensatory umrah, for Mu‘āwiya had not yet embraced Islam at that time. By the Farewell Pilgrimage, however, he had embraced Islam, as he had by the umrah from al-Ji‘rāna. Sa‘d therefore called performing umrah during the months of Hajj tamattu. Some Syrians used to forbid performing umrah during the months of Hajj, so the Companions related the Sunnah concerning this in rebuttal of those who prohibited it. In their terminology, therefore, someone combining Hajj and umrah was performing tamattu. For this reason, he was required to offer a sacrificial animal and was included in the words of the Most High:

“Whoever performs umrah followed by Hajj must offer whatever sacrificial animal he can readily afford.”

In Sahīh al-Bukhārī and elsewhere, ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb reported:

“I heard the Messenger of