English Translation

Muhammad b. Ja'far narrated to us: Shu'ba narrated to us, from Qays b. Muslim, from Tariq b. Shihab, from Abu Musa, who said: I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, while he was encamped at al-Abtah, and he said to me: "Have you performed Hajj?" I said: Yes. He said: "With what did you enter ihram?" I said: "Labbayk, with an ihram like the ihram of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him." He said: "You have done well." He said: "Circumambulate the House, and go between Safa and Marwah, then release yourself from ihram." So I circumambulated the House and went between Safa and Marwah, then I came to a woman from Banu Qays who combed my head, and then I entered ihram for Hajj. He said: So I continued giving people rulings according to it, until it was the caliphate of Umar, may Allah Almighty be pleased with him, when a man said: "O Abu Musa," or "O Abdullah b. Qays, hold back a bit on your rulings, for you do not know what the Commander of the Faithful has introduced concerning the rites after you left." He said: So he said: "O people, whoever we have given a ruling to, let him wait, for the Commander of the Faithful is arriving among you, so follow him." He said: Then Umar arrived, and I mentioned that to him, and he said: "If we take the Book of Allah, then the Book of Allah, the Exalted, commands us to complete it; and if we take the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, did not release himself from ihram until the sacrificial animal had reached its place."