Hadith 589
وعنه رضي الله عنه قال : خطبنا رسول صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم فقال : « إن الله كتب عليكم الحج » فقام الأقرع بن حابس فقال : أفي كل عام يا رسول الله ؟ قال : « لو قلتها لوجبت الحج مرة فما زاد فهو تطوع ». رواه الخمسة غير الترمذي وأصله في مسلم من حديث أبي هريرة.
Ibn 'Abbas (RAA) narratedThat the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) once addressed us and said, “O People! Hajj has been prescribed for you." Al-Aqra’ bin Habis stood up and asked, ‘O Prophet of Allah! Are we to perform Hajj every year?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Had I said ‘yes’, it would have become a (yearly) obligation. Hajj is obligatory only once in one’s lifetime. Whatever one does over and above this is supererogatory (a voluntary act) for him." Related by the five Imams except for at-Tirmidhi. A similar narration was also related by Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurairah.
