English Translation

Narrated Jafar ibn Muhammad from his father: We went to the house of Jabir ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he asked about the (condition of) each of the people, until, when my turn came, I said, "I am Muhammad ibn Ali, the grandson of Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him)." So he stretched out his hand toward me (with affection) and placed it on my head, and undid my upper button, then undid the lower button (of my garment), and then placed his palm on my chest between the two breasts—I was a young boy in those days. Then he said, "Welcome, and greetings, O my nephew! Ask me whatever you wish." So I asked him, and he was blind. In the meantime the time of prayer came, so he stood up wrapped in a sheet, and when he would place its two edges on his two shoulders, they would slip down because the sheet was small; and his large sheet was placed to one side on a rack. Then he led us in prayer (i.e., acted as imam). Then I said, "Inform me about the Hajj of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) (i.e., the Farewell Pilgrimage)." So Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) gestured with his hand—nine—and said, "The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) stayed nine years in Madinah without performing Hajj, then in the tenth year it was announced among the people that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was going for Hajj. So many people gathered in Madinah, all seeking to follow the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and to do the same as he (peace be upon him) did (in performing Hajj). So we all set out with him (peace be upon him) until we reached Dhul-Hulayfah, where Asma bint Umays (may Allah be pleased with her) gave birth to Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him). She sent word to the Prophet (peace be upon him): 'What should I now do (in the state of postnatal bleeding)?' So he (peace be upon him) said, 'Bathe, tie a cloth as a loincloth, and enter ihram.' Then the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) prayed two rakats in the mosque and mounted his she-camel al-Qaswa, until, when it stood up straight with him (peace be upon him) at (the place of) al-Bayda, I looked ahead and, as far as my eyes reached, I saw nothing but riders and pedestrians, and to his right and left and behind there was a similar crowd of people; and the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was among us, and the Quran was descending upon him (peace be upon him), and he (peace be upon him) alone knew well its true meaning. And whatever he (peace be upon him) did, we did the same. Then he (peace be upon him) pronounced the Talbiyah with pure monotheism (Tawhid), and the people also pronounced the same Talbiyah that people pronounce now (that is, in the Prophet's (peace be upon him) Talbiyah they added some words, and he (peace be upon him) did not stop them); and the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) continued pronouncing the Talbiyah. And Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We intended nothing but Hajj and did not even know of Umrah; rather, in the days of Hajj we considered performing Umrah, in the manner of the Days of Ignorance, to be a serious matter. Until, when we came with him to the House, he (peace be upon him) touched the corner (i.e., the Black Stone) and trotted (ramal) three times in the Tawaf (that is, walked with short, springing steps, jerking the shoulders) and walked the four circuits in the usual manner, completing the Tawaf. Then he came to the Station of Ibrahim and recited this verse: 'And take the Station of Ibrahim as a place of prayer,' and he placed the Station of Ibrahim between himself and the House. Then my father used to say—and I do not know whether he mentioned it (on his own authority), but it must surely be from the Prophet (peace be upon him)—that he (peace be upon him) prayed two rakats, reciting in them Surat al-Ikhlas and Surat al-Kafirun. Then he returned to the Black Stone and kissed it, and went out by the door which is toward Safa. Then, when he drew near to Safa (Safa is the name of a hill which is twenty to twenty-five steps from the door of the Kabah), he recited this verse: 'Indeed Safa and Marwah are among the symbols of Allah,' and he (peace be upon him) said, 'We begin with that with which Allah began.' And he (peace be upon him) climbed Safa until he saw the House, and, turning toward the Qiblah, declared the oneness and greatness of Allah (i.e., he said La ilaha illallah and Allahu Akbar), and said, 'There is no god worthy of worship except Allah, alone; He has fulfilled His promise (i.e., of spreading the religion and helping His Prophet (peace be upon him)), and He aided His servant (Muhammad, peace be upon him), and He alone defeated all the confederates.' Then after that he supplicated, then said the same again, then supplicated—thus he did three times. Then he descended and walked toward Marwah, until, when his feet came down into the middle of the valley, he trotted, until he reached Marwah. On Marwah he did the same as he had done on Safa—that is, he said those words and, facing the Qiblah, supplicated—until, when the last circuit was completed on Marwah (that is, seven circuits had been done), he (peace be upon him) said, 'If I had known before what I came to know afterward, I would not have brought the sacrificial animal with me (and would have bought it in Makkah), and I would have made this ihram of Hajj into an Umrah. So whoever of you does not have a sacrificial animal with him, let him come out of ihram (that is, the Tawaf and say have been done and the acts of Umrah are complete) and make it an Umrah.' (Hearing this,) Suraqah ibn Jusham stood up and said, 'O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! Is this making Hajj into Umrah special for this year of ours, or is it permitted forever?' So he (peace be upon him) interlaced the fingers of one hand into the other and said twice, 'It is permitted forever and ever.' And Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) came from Yemen with the Prophet's (peace be upon him) camels, and found Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) to be among those who had come out of ihram; she was wearing colored clothes and had applied kohl. Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) disapproved, so she said, 'My father commanded this.' The narrator said: Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say in Iraq: I went to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) angry at Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) for having come out of ihram, and I informed him (peace be upon him) that I disapproved of it. So he (peace be upon him) said, 'Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) spoke the truth (that is, I myself commanded her to come out of ihram).' Then he (peace be upon him) said, 'What intention did you make when you intended Hajj?' So I said, 'I said: O Allah! I enter ihram for that for which Your Messenger (peace be upon him) has entered ihram.' He (peace be upon him) said, 'I have the sacrificial animal with me (so I did not come out of ihram); now you too do not come out of ihram.' Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Then the camels which Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) had brought from Yemen and those which the Prophet (peace be upon him) had brought with him, altogether came to one hundred camels. Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Then all the people came out of ihram and cut their hair, except the Prophet (peace be upon him) and those who had the sacrificial animals with them (they remained in ihram). Then when the day of Tarwiyah came (that is, the eighth of Dhul-Hijjah), all the people went to Mina and pronounced the Talbiyah for Hajj, and the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) also mounted, and prayed Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, and Fajr (five prayers) at Mina. Then he stayed a short while until the sun rose, and he (peace be upon him) ordered that the tent made of hair be pitched at (the place of) Namirah. And the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) set out, and the Quraysh were certain that he (peace be upon him) would halt at al-Mashar al-Haram, as had been the custom of all the Quraysh in the Days of Ignorance. But he (peace be upon him) went on past it, until he reached Arafat and found his tent pitched at Namirah, and alighted in it, until, when the sun had passed the meridian, he (peace be upon him) ordered al-Qaswa she-camel to be prepared by his (peace be upon him) command, and he came to the middle of the valley, and he (peace be upon him) delivered a sermon to the people. He said: 'Your blood and your property are as sacred to one another as the sacredness of this day, in this month, in this city. And everything of the Days of Ignorance is placed beneath my two feet (that is, has no value); the bloodshed of the Days of Ignorance is annulled, and the first bloodshed which I annul of our bloodshed is the blood of Ibn Rabiah, who was suckled among Banu Sad and whom Hudhayl killed (so I do not take retaliation for it). And likewise the usury of the Days of Ignorance is all abolished (that is, no one is to take the accrued usury of that time), and the first usury which I abolish of our usury is the usury of Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) ibn Abd al-Muttalib, for it is all abolished. And fear Allah concerning women, for you have taken them by the trust of Allah, and you have made their private parts lawful by the word (marriage) of Allah. And your right over them is that they should not let anyone whom you dislike come onto your bed (that is, into your house); then if they do so, strike them a blow that is not severe (that is, does not break a bone or destroy a limb or mar their beauty). And their right over you is that their food and clothing, in the customary manner, are your responsibility. And I leave among you something such that, if you hold firmly to it, you will never go astray: the Book of Allah. And you will be asked (on the Day of Resurrection) about me, so what will you say?' They all said, 'We bear witness that you (peace be upon him) have conveyed the message of Allah, fulfilled the duty of the mission, and given sincere counsel to the community.' Then he (peace be upon him) raised his forefinger (the finger of witness) toward the sky and lowered it toward the people, saying, 'O Allah! Bear witness. O Allah! Bear witness. O Allah! Bear witness.' Three times (he said this and gestured thus). Then the adhan and iqamah were given, and he prayed Zuhr; then the iqamah was said and he prayed Asr, and between the two he prayed nothing else (i.e., no Sunnah or voluntary prayer). Then the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) mounted and came to the standing place (mawqif), turned his she-camel's belly toward the rocks, placed the path in front of him, faced the Qiblah, and remained standing there until sunset. The yellowness faded away little by little and the disc of the sun set; then (he mounted), seated Usamah (may Allah be pleased with him) behind him, and returned (toward Muzdalifah), and he had drawn in al-Qaswa's rein so tightly that her head was touching the pommel (the front part) of the saddle (the mawrik is the place where a rider, when tired, sometimes places his dangling foot). And he (peace be upon him) gestured with his right hand, 'O people! Go gently, calmly.' And whenever he came to a sand dune (where he found the crowd less), he would loosen the rein a little until the she-camel climbed up. (Finally he reached Muzdalifah, and there prayed Maghrib and Isha with one adhan and two iqamahs, and prayed no voluntary prayer between these two obligatory prayers (i.e., no Sunnah), then he (peace be upon him) lay down. (Glory be to Allah, what servants the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) had, whose eyes were upon his (peace be upon him) sleeping, sitting, rising, waking, eating, and drinking day and night, and who recorded and preserved every blessed act—may Allah have mercy upon them.) Until morning came. When the dawn appeared, he prayed the Fajr prayer with adhan and iqamah, then mounted al-Qaswa she-camel until he came to al-Mashar al-Haram, and there faced the Qiblah, supplicated to Allah, said Allahu Akbar and La ilaha illallah, proclaimed His oneness, and remained standing there until it was fully light, and he (peace be upon him) departed from there before sunrise, and seated al-Fadl ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) behind him—and al-Fadl (may Allah be pleased with him) was a young man with fine hair, fair and handsome. Then when he (peace be upon him) set off, a group of women passed by, each woman mounted on a camel, all going along, and al-Fadl (may Allah be pleased with him) began looking at them, so the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) placed his hand on al-Fadl's face (and said nothing with his tongue—glory be to Allah, this was a matter of manners, and how excellently he fulfilled forbidding the evil), and al-Fadl (may Allah be pleased with him) turned his face to the other side and began looking, so the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) again turned his hand that way and placed it on his face, and al-Fadl turned his face the other way and began looking again—until he reached the valley of Muhassir, where he urged the she-camel a little faster and took the middle road which comes out at Jamrat al-Kubra, until he came to the Jamrah which is by the tree (this is called Jamrat al-Aqabah), and threw at it seven pebbles, saying Allahu Akbar at each pebble—pebbles thrown from between the fingertips (and about the size of a broad bean)—and he threw them standing in the middle of the valley (so that Mina, Arafat, and Muzdalifah were on his right and Makkah on his left). Then he came to the place of sacrifice and sacrificed sixty-three camels with his blessed hand, giving the rest to Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who sacrificed them; and he (peace be upon him) made him a partner in his sacrifice, and then ordered that a piece of meat from every camel be taken. (In accordance with his (peace be upon him) command, they took some) and put it into a pot and cooked it; then he (peace be upon him) and Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) both ate of its meat and drank its broth. Then he (peace be upon him) mounted and came to the House and performed Tawaf al-Ifadah, and prayed Zuhr in Makkah. Then he came to Banu Abd al-Muttalib, who were giving water to drink at Zamzam, and he (peace be upon him) said, 'Draw water, O children of Abd al-Muttalib! Were it not that I fear the people would crowd in and prevent you from drawing water, I too would have joined you as a partner and drawn water (that is, had he (peace be upon him) drawn water, it would have become a Sunnah, and then the whole community would begin drawing water and their function of giving water would be lost).' Then those people gave a bucket to him (peace be upon him), and he (peace be upon him) drank from it."