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For anyone performing Umrah: open the step you are on, do what it says, and keep count of ṭawāf and saʿī with the counters. Every du'ā' and verse is in Arabic with its English, and every point shows what it rests on.
Open the step you are on, do what it says, then tap Mark this step done. The evidence sits under each step if you want it. Labels: Sunna Qur'an or sound hadith, Scholars a school position, Weak not sound.
A second Umrah from within Makkah is a point scholars differ on. ʿĀʾishah performed one from al-Tanʿīm on the Prophet's ﷺ instruction, after her Hajj, because her own first Umrah had been interrupted Bukhārī 1785. Many scholars allow repeated Umrahs on that basis and on the general hadith that one Umrah to the next expiates what lies between them Bukhārī 1773. Ibn Taymiyya and others held that the Companions did not leave Makkah to repeat Umrah and that more ṭawāf is better. Both views are held by serious scholars; this page does not settle it.
While in iḥrām: what to avoid
| Sunna | Men: no shirts, turbans, trousers, hooded cloaks or leather socks, and nothing scented with saffron or wars. If no sandals, socks cut below the ankle. Bukhārī 1542 |
| Scholars | No perfume once in iḥrām, extended from the hadith above. Scent put on the body before iḥrām may stay, on most scholars' view. |
| Qur'an | No hunting land game 5:95. Do not shave the head before the rites are complete 2:196. |
| Sunna | No marriage contract, for yourself or anyone else, and no proposing Muslim 1409. |
| Scholars | Cutting nails and removing body hair: extended from the head-hair ruling by the schools. "No stitched clothing" is the jurists' summary of the hadith list, so a belt, watch, money pouch and sandals are widely allowed. |
If something is done by mistake or forgetfulness, ask a scholar about any expiation (fidya) before worrying; the schools differ on what it requires.
Lost count?
Scholars Build on the number you are sure of (the lower one) and carry on. Jurists take this from the hadith on doubt in prayer: discard the doubt and build on what you are certain of Muslim 571. If you and Adam disagree, the one who is sure can go by his certainty.
Use the minus button if you tapped one too many.
Sources
Qur'an in English: Dr Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran (quran.com). Hadith numbers and gradings: sunnah.com. Translations of du'ā' wording are plain renderings for reading along.
- Bukhārī 1, actions are by intentions.
- Bukhārī 1524, the miqāts; Dhu'l-Ḥulayfah for the people of Madinah.
- Bukhārī 1542, clothing prohibited in iḥrām.
- Muslim 1184, the Prophet's ﷺ talbiyah.
- Muslim 713, du'ā' on entering the mosque.
- Bukhārī 1614, wuḍū' then ṭawāf on arrival.
- Abū Dāwūd 1883, iḍṭibāʿ in ṭawāf (ḥasan, al-Albānī).
- Muslim 1262, ramal in the first three circuits.
- Bukhārī 1597, ʿUmar kissing the Black Stone.
- Bukhārī 1613, pointing to the Stone with takbīr.
- Bukhārī 1609, touching only the two Yemeni corners.
- Abū Dāwūd 1892, du'ā' between the Yemeni corner and the Stone (ḥasan, al-Albānī).
- Abū Dāwūd 1817, talbiyah until the Stone (ḍaʿīf, al-Albānī).
- Muslim 1218, Jābir's account: the Maqām, Ṣafā, Marwah, the valley.
- Bukhārī 1727, du'ā' for those who shave and those who shorten.
- Bukhārī 1785, ʿĀʾishah's Umrah from al-Tanʿīm.
- Bukhārī 1773, one Umrah to the next as expiation.
- Muslim 1409, no marriage in iḥrām.
- Muslim 571, building on certainty when in doubt.
- Qur'an 2:125, 2:158, 2:196, 2:201, 5:95.