The time for fasting three days during Hajj and seven days upon return

The questioner:
Its last day is the Day of 'Arafah, the seventh, if he returns. We are not aware of any scholarly disagreement that the one performing tamattu' who does not find the sacrificial animal transitions to . And Allah the Exalted has explicitly stated this in His Book, saying: . As for the time of fasting, the preferred option for the three days is to fast them during the period of ihram for Hajj, and on the Day of Sacrifice.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
As for the time of fasting, the preferred option for the three days is to fast them on the eighth day of the ihram for Hajj and the Day of Sacrifice, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: .

The Shaykh:
The time of entering the state of ihram for Hajj?

The questioner:
Yes.

The Shaykh:
He fasts on the Day of Sacrifice. Is the Day of Sacrifice permissible for fasting? No, as mentioned previously, according to the jurists, the last of these days is the Day of 'Arafah. The Day of 'Arafah. And the correct view is that the last of them is the eighth day. This is the preferred option. However, in case of necessity, he fasts the days of Tashreeq; he fasts the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth days. This is in case of necessity. As for the preferred option, he completes them before the Day of 'Arafah. Yes. And if he fasts them in the beginning of Shawwal, from the time he enters the state of ihram for 'Umrah, or if he enters the state of ihram for 'Umrah on a day, or if he enters the state of ihram for 'Umrah on a Monday in Shawwal, the second day of the festival, the second day of 'Id al-Fitr, then he has the right to fast these three days.

The questioner:
And Ibn 'Umar, 'Aishah, and our Imam used to say that he fasts them between the time of slaughtering his sacrificial animal in Hajj and the Day of 'Arafah. If he did not enter the state of ihram until the Day of Tarwiyah, he fasts three days, the last of which is the Day of 'Arafah. Fasting on the Day of 'Arafah while at 'Arafah is not recommended. We only preferred it here because of the need, and because it is obligatory.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
And the Qadi mentioned in al-Mujarrad that the last of them is the Day of Tarwiyah.

The Shaykh:
This is the best, yes.

The questioner:
Our Shaykh stated that the explicit ruling attributed to Ahmad, in the texts we have found, is that the last of the three days should be the Day of 'Arafah. There is no disagreement regarding the permissibility of this; the disagreement is only about its recommendation. As for the time when it becomes permissible to fast these three days, the earliest time is when one enters the state of ihram for 'Umrah. It was reported from Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him and him) that it is only permissible to fast them after one exits the state of ihram from the 'Umrah. Ibn al-Munzhir preferred this view based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: and because it is an obligatory fast, so it is not permissible to advance it before its time of obligation, like other obligatory fasts. Our position is that it is one of the two ihrams of tamattu', so fasting after it is permissible, even if one delays