Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say while he was in the valley of al-‘Aqīq: ‘A visitor from my Lord came to me tonight and said: “Pray in this blessed valley and say: ‘An umrah combined with Hajj.’”’”

Thus, it is related through the most authentic chains of transmission from these Rightly Guided Caliphs—‘Umar, ‘Uthmān and ‘Alī—and from others besides the caliphs, such as ‘Imrān ibn Husayn, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, combined umrah and Hajj. They used to call this tamattu.

In the two Sahīhs, Bakr ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Muzanī reported:

“Anas ibn Mālik said: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, reciting the talbiya for Hajj and umrah.’ I related this to Ibn ‘Umar, who said: ‘He recited the talbiya for Hajj alone.’ I then met Anas and told him, and he said: ‘They think we are nothing but children! I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: “Here I am, for umrah and Hajj.”’”

Here, then, Anas reports that he heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, reciting the talbiya for both Hajj and umrah. As for what Bakr related from Ibn ‘Umar concerning him, the answer is that trustworthy narrators who were more reliable than Bakr in transmitting from Ibn ‘Umar—such as his son Sālim—reported that he said:

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed tamattu, combining umrah with Hajj.”

These narrators were more reliable than Bakr in transmitting from Ibn ‘Umar. It is more reasonable to attribute an error to Bakr in reporting from Ibn ‘Umar than to attribute errors both to his son Sālim in reporting from him and to Ibn ‘Umar himself in reporting from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

A likely explanation is that Ibn ‘Umar told him, “He performed Hajj alone,” and he thought that he had said, “He recited the talbiya for Hajj.” For they used the expression “performing Hajj alone” to mean performing a single set of the rites of Hajj. And this