A man from the tribe of Banu Hujaym said to Ibn Abbas, "What is this legal opinion of yours that has spread widely among the people, that whoever performs tawaf around the House has come out of his ihram?"Ibn Abbas replied, "It is the practice of your Prophet, even if you find it distasteful."
قال رجل من بني الهجيم لابن عباس ما هذه الفتيا التي قد تشغفت أو تشقبت بالناس أن من طاف بالبيت فقد حل؟ فقال: سنة نبيكم وإن رغمتم.
Muslim narrated it in the chapter on Hajj (1244), from Qatada, who said, I heard Abu Hassan al-Araj narrate it, and so he related it.His statement, "qad tashaghghafat," means it attached itself to people's hearts and they became infatuated with it.His statement, "tashaabat bin-nas," means it confused people's affairs for them.It has also been transmitted as "tashaghghabat," with the dotted ghayn, meaning it caused people's views to diverge and created disagreement among them.The scholars said, What Ibn Abbas mentioned here is his own view, contrary to the view held by the majority of the early and later scholars. I do not know whether he retracted it or not. For the pilgrim does not come out of the state of ihram merely by performing the tawaf of arrival. Rather, he does not come out of ihram until he stands at Arafah, throws the pebbles, shaves his head, and performs the tawaf of visitation. Only then does he attain both releases from ihram.