The ruling on leaving Muzdalifah before dawn out of fear of the crowd and stoning the pillars upon arrival.
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The Shaykh : Another issue: A man left Muzdalifah before dawn out of fear of the crowd, and he stoned the pillars when he arrived there, meaning before dawn. Is this permissible or not permissible?
It is permissible. Some scholars have restricted this to cases where the person is weak or a child who cannot handle the crowd. But in our time, everyone fears the crowd, isn't that so? The young and the old alike. In the past, there was no crowd except a small one, and the crowd was only difficult for a very weak person or a sick person. I witnessed this; I witnessed that people were stoning the Jamarat al-Aqabah on the day of the festival while we were camping near the Musalla of Mina, watching those who were stoning. You would find them few, those who went to stone. So people used to say: If one is weak, sick, or a child, he should leave out of fear of the crowd. But now, answer me, people? The crowd exists for the old and the young, the strong and the weak. Therefore, we say: There is no harm in a person leaving before dawn, and when he arrives at Mina, he stones. As for the hadith:Sunan al-Bayhaqi 4:904, it is a hadith that is subject to scrutiny. And it is established in *Sahih al-Bukhari*: . And Asma' bint Abi Bakr used to do that as well. And it is known: If people arrive at Mina before dawn, those who have been granted a dispensation, will they remain in the tents until the sun rises and gets high? No. Absolutely not. They will begin stoning. And stoning is the greeting of Mina, as the scholars said, meaning: From the moment you enter Mina, you stone the pillar, just as when you enter the mosque, what do you do? You hasten to pray two rak'ahs. So the statement that one who is permitted to leave Muzdalifah at the end of the night does not stone until the sun rises is a weak statement. The correct view is: When you arrive, you stone. Now, if you arrive before dawn and stone, and then you go down to Mecca and perform the Tawaf al-Ifadah before dawn, is it permissible or not? It is permissible. Yes, it is permissible.
It is permissible. Some scholars have restricted this to cases where the person is weak or a child who cannot handle the crowd. But in our time, everyone fears the crowd, isn't that so? The young and the old alike. In the past, there was no crowd except a small one, and the crowd was only difficult for a very weak person or a sick person. I witnessed this; I witnessed that people were stoning the Jamarat al-Aqabah on the day of the festival while we were camping near the Musalla of Mina, watching those who were stoning. You would find them few, those who went to stone. So people used to say: If one is weak, sick, or a child, he should leave out of fear of the crowd. But now, answer me, people? The crowd exists for the old and the young, the strong and the weak. Therefore, we say: There is no harm in a person leaving before dawn, and when he arrives at Mina, he stones. As for the hadith: