Hajj

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullahibn Abbas used to say that the area between the corner of the BlackStone and the door of the Kaba was called al-Multazam.

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard Muhammadibn Yahya ibn Habban mentioning that a certain man passed Abu Dharr atar-Rabadha (which was about 30 miles from Madina) and Abu Dharr askedhim, "Where are you heading to?" and he replied, "I am intending to dohajj." Abu Dharr questioned, "Has anything else brought you out?" andhe said, "No," so Abu Dharr said "Resume what you are doingwholeheartedly."

The man related, "I went on till I came toMakka and I stayed as long as Allah willed. Suddenly, one time, I waswith a crowd of people thronging about a man and I pushed through thepeople to him and it was the old man that I had come across at ar-Rabadha. When he saw me, he recognized me and said, 'Ah, you have donewhat I told you.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik that he asked Ibn Shihab aboutmaking a condition in the hajj that one could leave ihram at any placewhere an obstacle befell one and he said, "Does anyone do that?' anddisapproved of it.

Malik was asked whether a man could cutplants from the Haram for his mount, and he said, "No."

Malik said, concerning a woman who had never been on hajj, "Ifshe doesn't have a mahram, or if she has, but he cannot come with her,she does not abandon Allah's making of the hajj obligatory for her.Let her go in a group of women."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az-Zubayr that A'isha umm al-muminin used to say, "Someone performinghajj at-tamattu who does not have a sacrificial animal fasts (threedays) from the time he enters ihram for the hajj till the Day ofArafa, and if he does not fast then, he fasts the days of Mina."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Salim ibnAbdullah that Abdullah ibn Umar used to say the same concerning that,as the words of A'isha, may Allah the Exalted be pleased with her.