after the principal circumambulation of Hajj; nothing else is required of her.

Those who hold the second view had received the report established in the authentic collection that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her:

“Abandon your Umrah.”

They believed that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had instructed her to perform Umrah from al-Tan‘īm. They therefore believed that this Umrah had become obligatory to make up for the abandoned Umrah, and that abandoning Umrah meant leaving it by entering ihram for Hajj alone.

Those who hold the first view, however, had received knowledge that had not reached the others. The account of ‘Ā’ishah was transmitted through several routes, from her and from others, including Jābir. Consider what she said and what the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her:

“You have now left ihram for both your Hajj and your Umrah.”

He also told her:

“Your passage between al-Safā and al-Marwah and your circumambulation count for both your Hajj and your Umrah.”

Another version states:

“Your passage between al-Safā and al-Marwah suffices for both your Hajj and your Umrah.”

This explicitly establishes that she was performing both Hajj and Umrah, not Hajj alone, and that a single circumambulation sufficed for her: she did not need two.

Furthermore, authentic and explicit reports of the Sunnah establish that, when the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and those of his Companions who had brought sacrificial animals arrived, they circumambulated the House and passed between al-Safā and al-Marwah only once.