Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَهْلَلْنَا أَصْحَابَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِالْحَجِّ خَالِصًا لَيْسَ مَعَهُ غَيْرُهُ خَالِصًا وَحْدَهُ فَقَدِمْنَا مَكَّةَ صُبْحَ رَابِعَةٍ مَضَتْ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حِلُّوا وَاجْعَلُوهَا عُمْرَةً فَبَلَغَهُ إِنَّا نَقُولُ لَمَّا لَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ عَرَفَةَ إِلَّا خَمْسٌ أَمَرَنَا أَنْ نَحِلَّ فَيَرُوحَ إِلَى مِنًى نَاسٌ مِنَّا وَمَذَاكِيرُنَا تَقْطُرُ مَنِيًّا فَخَطَبَنَا فَقَالَ قَدْ بَلَغَنِي الَّذِي قُلْتُمْ وَإِنِّي لَأَتْقَاكُمْ وَأَبَرُّكُمْ وَلَوْلَا الْهَدْيُ لَحَلَلْتُ وَلَوْ اسْتَقْبَلْتُ مِنْ أَمْرِي مَا اسْتَدْبَرْتُ مَا أَهْدَيْتُ حِلُّوا وَاجْعَلُوهَا عُمْرَةً قَالَ وَقَدِمَ عَلِيٌّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْهُ مِنْ الْيَمَنِ قَالَ بِمَ أَهْلَلْتَ فَقَالَ بِمَا أَهَلَّ بِهِ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ فَأَهْدِهِ وَامْكُثْ حَرَامًا كَمَا أَنْتَ.
English Translation
Isma'il told us: Ibn Jurayj informed us, from Ata', who said: Jabir ibn Abdullah said: We, the companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, entered ihram for Hajj alone, purely, with nothing else combined with it. We arrived in Makkah on the morning of the fourth day that had passed of Dhu al-Hijjah, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Exit ihram and make it an Umrah." It reached him that we were saying: "Since there are only five days between us and Arafah, he has ordered us to exit ihram, so that some of us will go forth to Mina with our private parts still dripping semen (i.e., having just had relations with their wives)." So he addressed us and said: "What you have said has reached me, and indeed I am the most God-fearing among you and the most righteous of you. Were it not for the sacrificial animal (hady), I would have exited ihram; and if I had known beforehand what I later came to know, I would not have brought the hady. Exit ihram and make it an Umrah." He said: Ali, may Allah, the Exalted, be pleased with him, arrived from Yemen, and he was asked: "For what did you enter ihram?" He said: "For what the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, entered ihram." He said: "Then bring your hady and remain in the state of ihram as you are."