The Ruling on Stoning the Pillars Before the Sun Declines and the Response to the Doubts of Those Who Permit It

Question:
This questioner is, of course, asking a question that relates to the following. He says: Last year, of course, there was a lot of talk about stoning the pillars before the sun declines. And among the arguments of some of those who call for it are two things. First, some say that there is no explicit prohibition from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding stoning the pillars before the sun declines. And another thing they cite as evidence is that they say the Companions, or most of them, were shepherds of camels and did not gather except at the call to prayer for the midday prayer or the midday prayer itself. Therefore, they did not mean to stone, or rather, they did not stone except after the sun declined. So what is your response to these two matters?

Answer:
The response is clear. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , meaning: Perform the rites as I perform them. During the days of Tashriq, he and his Companions would wait until the sun declined, and then they would stone the pillars on all the days of Tashriq. It is not mentioned that he advanced the stoning before the sun declined on some days, or that any of his Companions advanced it before the sun declined and he approved of that. And they say: He did not prohibit it with an explicit prohibition. He said: , the implication of which is that one does not do anything except what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions did. And this is a prohibition, because the command, as the scholars of usul al-fiqh (principles of jurisprudence) said, implies a prohibition, and conversely, a prohibition implies a command. So these people do not know the methods of deriving evidence, or they know them but want to mislead. And the most amazing and laughable thing is that they say all the Companions were shepherds, all the Companions were shepherds, and they do not attend except at the time the sun declines. And the meaning of the Messenger’s delay is that they were shepherds and do not come except when the sun declines. Am I ashamed of this speech?
Were all the Companions shepherds? The shepherds were a small number among them, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) granted them a dispensation to stone at night. He did not grant them a dispensation to stone before the sun declines. He granted them a dispensation to stone at night, and he granted them a dispensation to combine the pebbles of the first day with the pebbles of the last day, but he did not grant them a dispensation to stone before the sun declines, ever. . Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,