He also said, “We had no place to stay in Mina, so we waited there on the nights of staying until after midnight, then we left for the House of Allah the Sacred, where we spent the rest of the night.”
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The questioner : He also said, “We had no place to stay in Mina, so we waited there on the nights of staying until after midnight, then we left for the House of Allah the Sacred, where we spent the rest of the night. What is the ruling on this?”
The Shaykh : The ruling on this is that your action is sufficient in terms of sufficiency, but what you should do is the opposite of that.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : What you should do is stay in Mina day and night during the days of Tashriq. If you have no place, then stay where the people end, meaning at the last tent, even if it is outside Mina, if you cannot find a place. If you have searched thoroughly and found no place in Mina, then be at the last tent of the people’s tents. Some scholars in our time have held that if a person cannot find a place in Mina, the obligation of staying falls off him, and it is permissible for him to stay in any place in Makkah or elsewhere. They analogized this to the case where a limb required for ablution is missing, in which case washing it falls off. However, there is a consideration here, because the ruling of purity is tied to the limb, and it was not present. In this case, however, the purpose of staying is for the people to be gathered as one community. Therefore, it is obligatory for a person to be at the last tent so that he is with the pilgrims. This is analogous to the case where the mosque is full of the congregation and people are praying around the mosque; in that case, the rows must be connected, and each row must be adjacent to the next, so that the congregation is one congregation. Staying is analogous to this, not to a severed limb. Yes.
The questioner : This is a message from the questioner R.A.M., an Egyptian resident of al-Madinah al-Munawwarah.
The Shaykh : The ruling on this is that your action is sufficient in terms of sufficiency, but what you should do is the opposite of that.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : What you should do is stay in Mina day and night during the days of Tashriq. If you have no place, then stay where the people end, meaning at the last tent, even if it is outside Mina, if you cannot find a place. If you have searched thoroughly and found no place in Mina, then be at the last tent of the people’s tents. Some scholars in our time have held that if a person cannot find a place in Mina, the obligation of staying falls off him, and it is permissible for him to stay in any place in Makkah or elsewhere. They analogized this to the case where a limb required for ablution is missing, in which case washing it falls off. However, there is a consideration here, because the ruling of purity is tied to the limb, and it was not present. In this case, however, the purpose of staying is for the people to be gathered as one community. Therefore, it is obligatory for a person to be at the last tent so that he is with the pilgrims. This is analogous to the case where the mosque is full of the congregation and people are praying around the mosque; in that case, the rows must be connected, and each row must be adjacent to the next, so that the congregation is one congregation. Staying is analogous to this, not to a severed limb. Yes.
The questioner : This is a message from the questioner R.A.M., an Egyptian resident of al-Madinah al-Munawwarah.