He said to Abdullah bin Umar, "Abu Abd al-Rahman, I have seen you do four things that I have not seen any of your companions do."Abdullah replied, "What are they, Ibn Jurayj?"He said, "I have seen that you touch only the two Yemeni corners of the Kaaba. I have seen you wear tanned leather sandals. I have seen you dye your hair yellow. And I have seen that when you are in Makkah, the people enter the state of ihram when they sight the new moon, but you do not enter ihram until the Day of Tarwiyah."Abdullah bin Umar replied, "As for the corners, I never saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ touch any but the two Yemeni ones. As for the tanned sandals, I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wearing sandals that had no hair on them, and he would perform ablution while wearing them, so I love to wear them. As for the yellow dye, I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ dyeing with it, so I love to dye with it. And as for entering ihram, I never saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ enter ihram until his mount set off with him."
أنه قال لعبد الله بن عمر: يا أبا عبد الرحمن رأيتك تصنع أربعا لم أر أحدا من أصحابك يصنعها! قال: وما هن يا ابن جريج؟ قال: رأيتك لا تمس من الأركان إلا اليمانيين، ورأيتك تلبس النعال السبنية، ورأبتك تصبغ بالصفرة، ورأيتك إذا كنت بمكة أهل الناس إذا رأوا الهلال ولم تهلل أنت حتى يكون يوم التروية؟ فقال عبد الله بن عمر: أما الأركان فإني لم أر رسول الله ﷺ يمس إلا اليمانيين، وأما النعال السينية فإني رأيت رسول الله ﷺ يلبس النعال التي ليس فيها شعر ويتوضأ فيها، فأنا أحب أن ألبسها، وأما الصفرة فإني رأيت رسول الله ﷺ يصبغ بها فأنا أحب أن أصبع بها، وأما الإهلال فإني لم أر رسول الله ﷺ يهل حتى تنبعث به راحلته.
Malik narrated it in Hajj (31) from Saeed bin Abu Saeed Maqburi, from Ubayd bin Jurayj, and he related it just as mentioned. Bukhari narrated it in Wudu (166), and Muslim in Hajj (1187), both through Malik, in like manner.Regarding his statement, "except the two Yamani corners," Nawawi said in his commentary on Muslim (8/93), "What is meant by the two Yamani corners is the Yamani corner and the corner containing the Black Stone. They are both called 'the two Yamani ones' by extending one of the two names to cover both... The two Yamani corners remain on the original foundations laid by Ibrahim, unlike the two Syrian corners, which is why those two are not touched while the two Yamani ones are touched... Qadi Iyad said, 'The scholars of the various regions and the jurists of today are agreed that the two Syrian corners are not to be touched, and the disagreement over this only existed in the earlier era among some of the companions and some of the successors, and it later died out.'"