Agency in the stoning of the pillars on behalf of a woman who feels distress
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! This is a woman asking, and she says: I am a woman who feels distress in my chest when stoning the pillars. Is it permissible for me to appoint my husband to stone on my behalf, knowing that I have already stoned the Jamrat al-Aqabah? I ask for the answer. May Allah reward you.
Answer:
And the answer has been given more than once: there is no harm in it. She stones with her own hand, just as the women of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) stoned before us at the appropriate times. For example, tonight is an appropriate time; there is no crowding, no risk, and no desire to crowd. If the crowding is not easy for us, and so on, but every day there is no crowding. The night is facilitated, praise be to Allah. She stones with her own hand if she is in good health and safety. As for the one who has an excuse, she may appoint someone. This includes the elderly, the sick, and the pregnant woman who fears harm from it, or the one who has a prayer to make up if there is someone to watch over them. He knows, but as for
Your Eminence the Shaykh! This is a woman asking, and she says: I am a woman who feels distress in my chest when stoning the pillars. Is it permissible for me to appoint my husband to stone on my behalf, knowing that I have already stoned the Jamrat al-Aqabah? I ask for the answer. May Allah reward you.
Answer:
And the answer has been given more than once: there is no harm in it. She stones with her own hand, just as the women of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) stoned before us at the appropriate times. For example, tonight is an appropriate time; there is no crowding, no risk, and no desire to crowd. If the crowding is not easy for us, and so on, but every day there is no crowding. The night is facilitated, praise be to Allah. She stones with her own hand if she is in good health and safety. As for the one who has an excuse, she may appoint someone. This includes the elderly, the sick, and the pregnant woman who fears harm from it, or the one who has a prayer to make up if there is someone to watch over them. He knows, but as for
Source
فتاوى الحج 1410 هـ - 1 — archive.org (47:28)
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