What are the three types of Ḥajj, and where is iḥrām entered?

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02The three types

Tamattu‘ — ‘Umrah first, then leave iḥrām entirely, then enter it again for Ḥajj on the 8th. A hady is owed. The easiest, and what the Prophet ﷺ instructed his Companions to do.

Qirān — one iḥrām for both, held unbroken until the 10th. A hady is owed.

Ifrād — Ḥajj alone, with no ‘Umrah in the same journey. No hady is owed.

Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ. One who cannot find a hady fasts three days in Ḥajj and seven on returning — Q 2:196.

The mawāqīt

The boundaries at which iḥrām must be entered. Passing one without it obliges a dam.

Dhul-Ḥulayfah — Madīnah

Al-Juḥfah — Shām, Egypt, the west

Qarn al-Manāzil — Najd

Yalamlam — Yemen

Dhāt ‘Irq — Iraq

Those flying enter iḥrām before passing overhead — change and make the intention on board, or at the airport before boarding. Residents of Makkah enter from where they are.

Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ — “They are for the people of those places, and for all who pass through them intending Ḥajj or ‘Umrah.”

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