CHAPTER: On Renting (The Riding Animal).
Abu Umamah at-Taymi said: I was a man who used to give (riding-beasts) on hire for this purpose (for travelling during the pilgrimage) and the people would tell (me): Your hajj is not valid. So I met Ibn Umar and told him: Abu Abdur Rahman, I am a man who gives (riding-beast) on hire for this purpose (i. e. for hajj), and the people tell me: Your hajj is not valid. Ibn Umar replied: Do you not put on ihram (the pilgrim dress), call the talbiyah (labbayk), circumambulate the Kabah, return from Arafat and lapidate jamrahs? I said: Why not? Then he said: Your hajj is valid. a man came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and asked him the same question you have asked me. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم kept silence and did not answer him till this verse came down: It is no sin for you that you seek the bounty of your Lord. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sent for him and recited this verse to him and said: Your hajj is valid.
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The people used to trade, in the beginning, at Mina, Arafat, the market place of Dhul-Majaz, and during the season of hajj. But (later on) they became afraid of trading while they were putting on ihram. So Allah, glory be to Him, sent down this verse: It is no sin for you that you seek the bounty of your Lord during the seasons of hajj. Ubayd ibn Umayr told me that he (Ibn Abbas) used to recite this verse in his codex.
Abdullah bin Abbas said: In the beginning when Hajj was prescribed, people used to trade during Hajj. The narrator then narrated the rest of the tradition upto the words, `season of Hajj’.