2. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Safwan ibn Yahya from Hammad ibn ‘Uthman who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah , about a man who is for Mufrid al-Hajj; if he can perform his Tawaf first or later. He (the Imam) said,

It, by Allah, is the same to perform immediately or later.’”