, Muzdalifah, and Minā. Then, on the last of the days of Tashrīq, after stoning the pillars, he and the Muslims departed and camped at al-Muhassab, near Khayf Banī Kinānah. They spent the night preceding Wednesday there. That night, he sent ‘Ā’ishah with her brother ‘Abd al-Rahmān to perform ‘umrah from al-Tan‘īm, the boundary of the Sacred Precinct closest to Mecca along the road from Medina. A mosque was subsequently built there, which people called the Mosque of ‘Ā’ishah. For none of his Companions ever performed ‘umrah after Hajj while accompanying the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, except ‘Ā’ishah. This was because she had begun menstruating upon her arrival. She had come to perform ‘umrah, but before the standing she had neither circumambulated the House nor walked between al-Safā and al-Marwah.

The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her: “Perform all the rites that a pilgrim performs, except that you must not circumambulate the House or walk between al-Safā and al-Marwah.”

He and the Muslims then performed the farewell circumambulation of the House and returned to Medina. He did not stay on after the days of Tashrīq. During his lifetime, no one ever performed an ‘umrah by going out from the Sacred Precinct into the territory beyond it except ‘Ā’ishah alone.

The jurists of hadith, such as Ahmad and others, followed his Sunnah in all of this, although some of them, as well as others, may differ on certain points because of an interpretation that leaves them unaware of