—as a single rite, without exception; no other alternative is lawful for him.

If, nevertheless, he enters iḥrām for Hajj, or for qirān (a combined Hajj and ʿUmrah), he is obliged to dissolve that consecration into an ʿUmrah, exit iḥrām once it is completed, and nothing else will satisfy the requirement.

Ibn al-Qayyim adopted this view. After citing the ḥadīth of al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib he writes in Zād al-Maʿād: “We call Allah to witness that were we to enter iḥrām for Hajj we would deem it obligatory upon ourselves to convert it to ʿUmrah, so as to avoid the anger of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and in obedience to his command.”

By Allah, this ruling was never abrogated during his lifetime nor afterwards; not a single authentic word contradicts it. It was not confined to his Companions to the exclusion of those who came later. Indeed, Allah—Exalted is He—moved Suraqah’s tongue to ask, “Is this limited to us?” and he replied, “It is for all eternity.”

We know of nothing that can override these aḥādīth and this emphatic command, one that provoked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to anger against those who opposed it. Confronted with the sheer number of reports commanding it, and with the Prophet’s anger on its account, these scholars could not rest until they declared it obligatory.

The ḥadīth of al-Barāʾ just mentioned is the narration recorded by Ibn Mājah and by Imām Aḥmad, who graded it sound. Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out with his Companions. We had entered iḥrām for Hajj, and when we reached Mecca he said, ‘Turn your Hajj into ʿUmrah.’”

Al-Barāʾ continued: “The people said, ‘Messenger of Allah, we have entered iḥrām for Hajj; how can we make it an ʿUmrah?’ He replied, ‘Do whatever I command you.’ Yet they persisted, and he became angry. He then went and entered upon ʿĀʾishah while still angry, and she saw the anger in his face. She asked, ‘Whoever has angered you—may Allah anger him!?’ He answered, ‘And why should I not be angry when I give a command and it is not followed?’”

This report and others like it are the main evidence for those who hold that dissolution is obligatory.

Second ḥadīth
Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: “We arrived with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while proclaiming, ‘At Your service for Hajj!’ He then ordered us, and we turned it into an ʿUmrah.”

Overall meaning:
Jābir relates that during the Farewell Pilgrimage they came with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ already in iḥrām and raising the talbiyah for Hajj, because