The <i>ihram</i> and the <i>talbiya</i> - Section 1

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‘A’isha said :

I used to perfume God’s messenger with a perfume containing musk preparatory to his entering the sacred state before he put on the <i>ihram</i>, and when he put off the <i>ihram</i>, before he made the circuits round the House. I still seem to see the glistening of the perfume where the hair was parted on God’s messenger’s head while he was wearing the ihram. Bukhari and Muslim.

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Ibn ‘Umar said that he heard God’s messenger say when with his hair matted he raised his voice in the <i>talbiya</i>, “<i>Labbaik</i>, O God, </i>labbaik labbaik</i>; You have no partner; <i>labbaik</i>; praise and grace are Your, and the dominion; You have no partner,” saying nothing more than these words. Bukhari and Muslim.

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He said that when God’s messenger put his foot in the stirrup and his she-camel stood up with him on its back, he raised his voice in the <i>talbiya</i> from the mosque of Dhul Hulaifa. Bukhari and Muslim.

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri said:

We went out with God’s messenger crying aloud (<i>talbiya,/i>) at the pilgrimage. Muslim transmitted it.

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Anas said:

I was riding behind Abu Talha, and the people were crying aloud for both of them, the <i>hajj</i> and the <i>‘umra</i>. Bukhari transmitted it.

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‘A’isha said:

We went out with God’s messenger in the year of the Farewell Pilgrimage, some of us raising our voices in the i>talbiya</i> for an <i>‘umra</i>, some for <i>hajj</i> and <i>‘umra</i>, and others for the <i>hajj</i>, but God’s messenger raised his voice in the <i>talbiya</i> for the <i>hajj</i>. Those who did it for an <i>'umra</i> took off the ihram, but those who did it for the <i>hajj</i>, or who combined the <i>hajj</i> and the <i>‘umra</i> did not remove the <i>ihram</i> till the day of sacrifice. Bukhari and Muslim.

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Ibn ‘Umar said that at the Farewell Pilgrimage God’s messenger performed the <i>‘umra</i> first and the <i>hajj</i> later (The phrase used is <i>tamata'a bil-’umra ilal-hajj</i> which indicates gaining the advantage of the <i>‘umra</i> and waiting till the time for the <i>hajj</i> comes without requiring to wear the <i>ihram</i> during the intervening period. It is a difficult phrase to translate, and therefore one can only indicate its general meaning in a translation), raising his voice in the talbiya first for the <i>'umra</i> and afterwards for the <i>hajj</i>. Bukhari and Muslim.

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Zaid b. Thabit said he saw the Prophet (ﷺ) strip to put on his <i>ihram</i>, and bathe. Tirmidhi and Darimi transmitted it.

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Ibn ‘Umar said that the Prophet (ﷺ) matted his hair with <i>ghisl</i> (A lotion made of marsh-mallows, or lotus leaves, or fuller’s earth, or potash with water). Abu Dawud transmitted it.

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Khallad b. as-Sa’ib on his father’s authority reported God’s messenger as saying, “Gabriel came to me and commanded me to order my companions to raise their voices in the <i>talbiya</i>.” (The tradition ends by saying they were to raise their voices <i>bil-ihlal au at-talbiya</i>. These are alternative words meaning the same thing, and therefore I have not given any alternative in the translation) Malik, Tirmidhi, Abd Dawud, Nasa’i, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it.

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Sahl b. Sa‘d reported God’s messenger as saying, “No Muslim raises his voice in the <i>talbiya</i> without all on his right and left’, stones, or trees, or clods, doing the same till the earth is traversed on both sides,” Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it.

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Ibn ‘Umar said that God’s messenger used to perform two <i>rak’as</i> in Dhul Hulaifa, then when the she-camel stood up with him on its back at the mosque of Dhul Hulaifa, he shouted these words, saying, “<i>Lubbaik</i>, O God, <i>labbaik labbaik wa-sa‘daik</i> ('Always ready to obey.’) ; good is in Your hands; <i>labbaik</i>; desire and action are directed towards You. (Bukhari and Muslim, the wording being Muslim's.) (It is strange to find a tradition from Bukhari and Muslim in section (b). The author has explained in his introduction that section (a) is confined to Bukhari and Muslim and section (b) to other authorities)

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‘Umara b. Khuzaima b. Thabit said on his father's authority that when the Prophet (ﷺ) finished his talbiya, he asked God for His good pleasure and for paradise, and asked Him to preserve him in His mercy from hell. Shafi'i transmitted it.

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Jabir said that when God’s messenger intended to perform the pilgrimage he made proclamation among the people and they assembled. Then when he came to al-Baida’ (a place near Dhul Hulaifa) he put on the <i>ihram</i>. Bukhari transmitted it.

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Ibn ‘Abbas said that the polytheists used to say, “<i>Labbaik</i>, You have no partner," whereupon God’s messenger would say, “Woe to you ! Enough, enough; [do not add] ‘except a partner who is Your whom You possessest', when He possesses none.” They used to say this when they were going round the House. Muslim transmitted it.