Ibn Numayr narrated to us, my father narrated to me, ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Sulayman narrated to us, from ‘Ata’, from Jabir ibn ‘Abd Allah, may Allah be pleased with them both, who said: We entered the state of ihram for Hajj with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. When we arrived in Mecca, he commanded us to exit ihram and make it an ‘Umrah. That was hard upon us, and our hearts were constricted by it. When that reached the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—and we did not know whether it was something that had reached him from heaven or something from the people—he said: "O people, exit your ihram. Were it not for the sacrificial animal I have brought, I would have done as you have done." Jabir said: So we exited ihram, to the point that we had intercourse with our wives and did what those who are not in ihram do, until when the Day of Tarwiyah came and we had left Mecca behind us, we entered ihram for Hajj.