When the people saw the Prophet (a.

When the people saw the Prophet (a.s) continuing with the Ihram, they were hesitant about removing theirs. When he saw them not obeying the orders, he felt sad and anger appeared on his face. `A’ishah says about it: “The Prophet (a.s) arrived at Makkah on the 4th or 5th of Dhul-Hijjah and came to me in great anger. She asked him, “Who has angered you? May Allah send the person to the Hell!” He said, “Do you not know that I gave an order to the people and they hesitated in obeying it!

If I had known that the situation would develop like this, I would not have brought the sacrificial animals with me, bought the animals here and then I could have removed my Ihram as they are supposed to do!”[1] As people opposed the Hajj al-Tamattu` during the lifetime of the Prophet (a.s), they did the same after him as well and preferred their own wish against the order of the Shari`ah.

Therefore `Imran ibn Husayn says: “The Verse of Hajj al-Tamattu` was revealed in the Qur’an and the Prophet (a.s) ordered us about it. Later on no further Verse was revealed on the matter to change the order nor did the Prophet (a.s) stop us from it until his death.

But there was one person who said, what he said with his own intuition.”[2] The Commentator of Sahih Muslim, al-Nawawi writes: “Here, `Umar ibn al-Khattab is meant, because he was the first to raise objections against the Hajj al-Tamattu` . As far as `Uthman and others were concerned, they were his followers!”[3] Anyway, on 8 Dhul-Hijjah the Prophet (a.s) ordered the people who had removed Ihram after the `Umrah to wear them again for the Hajj.

The Prophet (a.s) was already in Ihram and so was `Ali (a.s) on the instructions of the Prophet (a.s). When the people wore the Ihram, they proceeded to Mina. The next day, after the Morning Prayers, the pilgrims moved to `Arafat.

Prior to [1] Sahīh Muslim, Vol 1, Page 403 [2] Sahīh Muslim, Vol 1, Page 403 [3] Sharh Sahīh Muslim, Vol 1, Page 402 Islam the Quraysh had established a custom that they used to stop at al-Mash`ar al-Haram and say that they were the Ahl al-Haram and that they would not go out of the Haram. But the other people used to go to `Arafat. The Quraysh were thinking that the Prophet (a.s) too would not go beyond al-Mash`ar al-Haram.

But the Qur’an ordained, “From where others start to go, you too should go!” Therefore, the Prophet (a.s) proceeded towards `Arafat, and reaching there, camped at Namirah.