1989 — Muhammad ibn ‘Awf al-Tā’ī narrated to us, Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Wahbī narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, from ‘Īsā ibn Ma‘qil ibn Umm Ma‘qil al-Asadī, of Asad Khuzaymah, who said: Yūsuf ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Salām narrated to me, from his grandmother Umm Ma‘qil, who said: When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, performed the Farewell Pilgrimage, we had a camel, and Abū Ma‘qil had dedicated it in the path of Allah. Then illness struck us, and Abū Ma‘qil died, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, set out. When he had finished his pilgrimage, I came to him, and he said: “O Umm Ma‘qil, what prevented you from going out with us?” She said: We had prepared ourselves, but Abū Ma‘qil died, and we had a camel upon which we used to perform the pilgrimage, and Abū Ma‘qil had bequeathed it in the path of Allah. He said: “Why did you not go out upon it, for the pilgrimage is in the path of Allah? But since this pilgrimage with us has passed you by, perform ‘umrah in Ramadan, for it is like a pilgrimage.” She used to say: The pilgrimage is a pilgrimage, and the ‘umrah is an ‘umrah — but the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said this to me, and I do not know whether it was specifically for me.

(1) Its chain of transmission is weak due to its disorder, except for his saying: “Perform ‘umrah in Ramadan, for it is like a pilgrimage,” for it is authentic due to corroborating evidence. Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, who is trustworthy, contradicted Ibn Isḥāq in his narration here, narrating from Yūsuf ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Salām, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to a man of the Anṣār and his wife: “Perform ‘umrah in Ramadan, for an ‘umrah in Ramadan is for you both like a pilgrimage.” It was transmitted via his route by Aḥmad (16406) and al-Nasā’ī in al-Kubrā (4210), and its chain is authentic.
Ibn Mājah (2993) transmitted via the route of Abū Isḥāq, from al-Aswad ibn Yazīd, from Abī Ma‘qil; and al-Tirmidhī (957) transmitted via the route of Abū Isḥāq, from al-Aswad ibn Yazīd, from Ibn Umm Ma‘qil, from Umm Ma‘qil — both from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “An ‘umrah in Ramadan equals a pilgrimage.”
Al-Tirmidhī said: Ḥasan gharīb.
The ḥadīth of Ibn ‘Abbās, in al-Bukhārī (1782) and Muslim (1256), bears witness to his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: “An ‘umrah in Ramadan equals a pilgrimage.” =