The ruling on exiting the state of ihram after stoning the pillars before shaving the head and slaughtering the sacrifice

Question:
A question from Hasan Hamid. He says: We performed the stoning of the pillars, and then we exited the state of ihram before we shaved our heads and slaughtered our sacrifices. We were performing tamattu' (combining 'Umrah and Hajj with a break between them). What is the ruling on that?

Answer:
You owe nothing, but the most cautious and best course is to delay exiting the state of ihram until you add to the stoning the shaving and the shortening of the hair. A group of scholars concluded that the stoning alone is sufficient for the first exit from ihram, but reports and hadiths came from some of them, and it is stronger that it should be added to that the shaving and the shortening of the hair. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stoned, slaughtered, and shaved, and then exited after that. The best in this matter is not to exit until one combines the two matters: the stoning with the shaving and the shortening of the hair, or the stoning with the circumambulation and the walking between al-Safa and al-Marwah. That is, one combines two of the three: the stoning, the shaving and the shortening of the hair, and the circumambulation and the walking between al-Safa and al-Marwah, if one has an obligation to do so.