The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, entered ihrām at al-Ji‘rānah because he began his ‘umrah there, after having arrived there in connection with the campaign and the spoils. It is thus clear that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, did not enter ihrām at al-Hudaybiyah, either when approaching Mecca or after leaving it. Rather, it was where he ended his ihrām for ‘umrah when the polytheists prevented him from proceeding. As for al-Ji‘rānah, he entered ihrām there for an ‘umrah that he began from that place. All of this is agreed upon and known through mass transmission; no two people with even the slightest knowledge of the Prophet’s life and Sunnah dispute it.

Anyone who imagines that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, left Mecca and then performed ‘umrah from al-Hudaybiyah or al-Ji‘rānah has committed a gross and outrageous error. Such a claim could only come from someone utterly unfamiliar with the Prophet’s Sunnah and life, although groups of the most eminent scholars have erred in citing this as evidence for performing ‘umrah from Mecca.

It has thus become clear that neither the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, nor any of his Companions performed ‘umrah from Mecca during his lifetime after its conquest and its becoming a land of Islam, except ‘Ā’ishah. Likewise, no one performed ‘umrah from it before the Conquest, when it was a land of unbelief, even though some of the Prophet’s Companions were there both before and after his migration to Medina. They would circumambulate the House, but none of them went beyond the sanctuary’s boundaries to perform ‘umrah from there, for circumambulating the House had remained a prescribed act of worship from the very beginning of the mission of