Ibn 'Abbas (RAA) narratedThat the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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 ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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.