I say: Aḥmad also reported it (1/198): "Dāwūd ibn Mihrān al-Dabbāgh narrated to us: Dāwūd, meaning the perfumer, narrated it." Abū Dāwūd also reported it, as did others, and it is in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" under number (1569). Al-Bukhārī (3/478) and Muslim (4/35) also reported it through another route from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr in a summarized form. They also reported it from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah herself, and in one of their narrations from her, she said: "I performed ʿumrah, and he said: 'This is in place of your ʿumrah.'" In another narration, it is similar, he said: "In place of my ʿumrah which ḥajj caught up with me and I did not complete." In another: "In place of my ʿumrah which I refrained from." In another: "As compensation for the ʿumrah of the people who performed ʿumrah." Muslim narrated it. This indicates the reason for his (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) instruction to her to perform this ʿumrah after ḥajj. The explanation is that she had entered into the state of iḥrām for ʿumrah during her pilgrimage with the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), either initially or by converting her ḥajj to ʿumrah (according to the well-known disagreement) (1). When she arrived at Sarif, a place near Mecca, she began menstruating and was unable to complete her ʿumrah and exit from it by performing ṭawāf around the House. He (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to her when she told him: "I had entered into iḥrām for ʿumrah, so what should I do with my ḥajj?" He said: -