Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1166 — The virtue of the one in ihram

Abdullah bin Tawus narrates from his father (the eminent Successor Tawus bin Kaysan, may Allah have mercy on him) that he stated: When we set out towards Makkah (for Hajj), my father would take us from his place over a distance of one month; but when we returned, he would take us over two months (stopping again and again along the way). When he was asked the reason for this practice, he said: "Indeed, it has reached me that a man remains continuously on the path of Hajj and in its reward until he enters (back) among his family."
This report makes clear that the honoured predecessors had such ardent love for the worship of Hajj that they liked to lengthen the return journey, so that the spiritual state and virtue of this great act of worship would continue for a long time.