Iraq. Some reports transmitted by the Iraqis have broken chains of transmission, while others contain narrators who are unknown or whose reliability has been impugned.

For this reason, hadith scholars criticized these reports, to the point that Ibn Hazm said: “Not a single word of what has been related from the Companions on this matter is authentic.” Reports on this matter have also been attributed to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that are undoubtedly fabricated.

Furthermore, the two Sahīh collections relate that Ibn ʿUmar said to those with him:

“Bear witness that I have undertaken Hajj together with my umrah.” He then set out, reciting the talbiyah for both, until he reached Mecca. He circumambulated the House and traversed between Safā and Marwa, doing no more than that. He neither shaved nor shortened his hair, nor resumed anything forbidden to him in ihrām, until the Day of Sacrifice, when he shaved his head and slaughtered his sacrificial animal. He considered that his initial circumambulation had fulfilled the circumambulation required for Hajj and umrah. He then said: “This is what Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, did.”

Moreover, it is authentically established that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“Umrah has become part of Hajj until the Day of Resurrection, and since it has become part of it, it requires no rites beyond those of Hajj.”

Sufyān al-Thawrī also related from Salama ibn Kuhayl, who said: “Tāwūs swore to me that none of the Companions of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed more than one circumambulation for his Hajj and umrah.” The same is authentically established from Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn ʿAbbās, Jābir and others. They were among those most knowledgeable about the pilgrimage of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and would not act contrary to it.