What is the ruling on one who leaves the tawaf and then returns from a place other than the one from which he left?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am a young man, eleven years old, and I went to perform 'Umrah. During my tawaf around the House, I went out to drink water, then I returned from a place other than the place from which I had left. Is there anything required of me regarding that tawaf? What? He says: I am a young man, eleven years old, I went to perform 'Umrah, and during my tawaf around the House, I went out to drink water, so I returned from a place other than the place from which I had left. Is there anything required of me?

Answer:
Yes. If he left a distance of the tawaf path that he did not walk in his tawaf, his tawaf is not valid; it is deficient, because he did not complete seven full circuits from the Black Stone to the Black Stone. So he has to repeat the tawaf, because he left a distance that he did not tawaf in. He went from one point and returned, and started from a second, later point. This is not valid unless his return was before the place he had left. There is no harm if he returned and started from a place before the place from which he had left to drink water; there is no harm in that. But if he returned and started from a place after the point from which he had left, then he did not complete the tawaf, so he has to repeat it. Yes.