Message #20747

[N. Truth Seeker]

That was a thoroughly honest write-up.  Plenty of thanks Sister.   Actually the origin was a practical trend that started by the same ones who narrated unauthentic and forged ahadith.  So, in the hadiths we may not find any specific one saying to don the ihram during Hajj.  But there are plenty of hadith that make references to wearing ihram.  And those references arise from an already established social tradition with no bearing in the Noble Quran.  Example, see the following hadith:

Yala bin Umayya reported that a person came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) as he was staying at Ji'rana and he had put on Ihram for 'Umra and he had dyed his beard and his head with yellow colour and there was a cloak on him. He said: I put on Ihram for 'Umra and I am in this state as you see (with dyed beard and head and a cloak over me). He (the Holy Prophet) said: Take off the cloak and wash the yellowness and do in your 'Umra what you do in Hajj. (Sahih al-Muslim Book 7, Number 2657).

One can be 100% certain these are all forged narrations for the simple reason that there was no official practice nor any sustainable system to preserve the Prophet's (quotes) by any central authority.  The narrations we see are coming from scattered narrators, not known nor heard of, many of these names of narrators are also fictitious.  Some names that may not be fictitious hardly knew the Prophet (pbuh).  Abu Huraira had not seen the Prophet (pbuh) more than once or twice at most.  He had certainly never met the Prophet (pbuh) as he lived in Medinah only during the last 3 years of the Prophet's (pbuh) lifetime. That was a time when the Prophet (pbuh) was very busy with a multitude of obligations and he already had his trusted confidants , with no time to waste chatting with strangers and useless newcomers like Abu Huraira.  Many of these people masquerading as "sahabas" were born decades after the passing of the Prophet (pbuh).  By that time the custom of wearing ihram for Hajj had already been introduced by the earlier narrators through their practices. 

In his lifetime the Prophet (pbuh) never allowed any one to write anything he spoke.  There was also no such thing as ihram as a clothing during the Prophet's (pbuh) lifetime.  It was only 'harama' that is, purification of the mind and body already elucidated in the Noble Quran highlighting the behavioral and ethical / moral conduct that must be observed during Hajj.