The validity of tamattu' if the one performing 'Umrah leaves Makkah before Hajj

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If a person intends to perform the rites of tamattu' in Hajj, and he performs 'Umrah in the months of Hajj, then leaves Makkah to somewhere inside the Kingdom or outside of it, is his 'Umrah valid and does he remain in the state of tamattu'?

Answer:
This is a matter of scholarly disagreement among the scholars regarding whether separating the 'Umrah and the Hajj with a journey invalidates the tamattu'. The stronger position, and the one to which Shaykh Ibn Baz (may Allah have mercy on him) leaned, is that if he returns to his homeland between the Hajj and the 'Umrah—and I think this is the position of the Maliki school—then the tamattu' is dissolved and the Hajj becomes ifrad (performing Hajj alone). If he performs it in that state, it is ifrad. But if he does not return to his homeland, he remains in his state of tamattu'. Yes.