“Al-‘aql” means blood money. “Al-‘asabah” refers to a man’s sons and relatives on his father’s side. In the law of inheritance, it refers to one who has no specified share, but takes what remains after those entitled to prescribed shares have received theirs. A ghurrah: Ibn al-Athir said, “A ghurrah is a slave, male or female.”

1984 — “Your circumambulation of the House and your passage between Safa and Marwah will suffice you for your Hajj and your umrah.”

Muslim (4/34) and Abu Dawud (1897) narrated it through ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Najih, from ‘Ata’—while Muslim said: from Mujahid—from ‘Aishah, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said this to her. This is the wording of ‘Ata’. Mujahid’s wording is that she menstruated at Sarif and became purified at ‘Arafah, whereupon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to her: “Your passage between Safa and Marwah will suffice you for your Hajj and your umrah.”

Muslim then narrated, as did Ahmad (6/124), through ‘Abdullah ibn Tawus, from his father, from ‘Aishah, that she had entered ihram for an umrah and arrived, but did not circumambulate the House before she menstruated. She then performed all the rites, having entered ihram for Hajj. On the Day of Departure, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said to her: “Your circumambulation will suffice you for your Hajj and your umrah.” But she refused, so he sent her with ‘Abd al-Rahman to Tan‘im, and she performed an umrah after Hajj.

I say: Thus, an umrah after Hajj is only for a menstruating woman who was unable to perform the umrah of Hajj before Hajj because she menstruated, as you have learned from this account of ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her. The same applies to any woman who enters ihram for the umrah of Hajj, as she did, but is prevented by menstruation from completing it. It is prescribed for such a woman to perform an umrah after Hajj. As for what the great masses of pilgrims do today in their rush to perform an umrah