In Hanafi legal classification, the majority of the seven circuits—four forms the integral minimum; completion of the remaining three is wajib. This explanation is drawn from later Hanafi commentaries, not presented as a separate quotation from Al-Quduri's current phrase.
A person who completed only four cannot claim to have performed the full seven-circuit tawaf. The consequences of an incomplete tawaf and its correction are treated more fully under ritual violations.