What is the ruling on appointing someone to stone the pillars on behalf of one who cannot handle the crowd on the twelfth day

Question : May Allah reward you. In her second question, she says: Honorable Shaykh Muhammad, may Allah preserve you, a man performed Hajj with his mother and sisters, and on the twelfth day he stoned the pillars on their behalf due to the intensity of the crowd, as the tour group urged them to hurry. She says the tour group’s Shaykh issued a ruling that this is permissible. What is our position in light of this?

Answer : The matter is as the Shaykh of the campaign has ruled: it is permissible for one who hastens to send a proxy to stone the pillars on his behalf on the twelfth day, if he is unable to endure the crowd, such as women, the elderly, and the weak. This is because these people do not have time that would allow them to delay until the crowd thins out; they are hastening. Accordingly, it is permissible for them to appoint a proxy. It has reached us that on the twelfth day, which is the first day of the Festival of Sacrifice, there is a severe and great crowd, such that neither a woman nor a weak man can bear it. In such a situation, we say to the woman, the elderly person, and the weak person: appoint a proxy to stone on your behalf. This is because Allah , and because Allah the Exalted says in His Book: