The ruling on delegating the stoning of the pillars.

The Shaykh : Another issue: If a person is unable to handle the crowd, such as an elderly person, a sick person, a woman, or someone similar, is it permissible for him to delegate? Answer? There is scholarly disagreement on this:
Some scholars said: If he is unable, the stoning is dropped from him, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: and this person is unable, and based on the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding prayer, which is greater than Hajj, where he said: So he dropped the standing, even though it is a pillar, because he was incapable. So some scholars said: If he is incapable of stoning, it is dropped from him. And there is no doubt that in this time of severe crowding, the elderly man, the strong man, oh Allah, is able to stone, and perhaps he does not stone except from a distance, where the pebble may fall in the place or may not fall. And the women, in reality, their situation is difficult; they are weak, veiled, and modest. Sometimes a woman comes out without an abaya, and her abaya falls off in the crowd. Sometimes she may be carrying a pregnancy that may fall. Sometimes she gets dizzy. And this, by Allah, is not what Islam brings, because Allah said in His great Book: and He says: How do we make things difficult for ourselves when Allah has made things easy for us, and praise be to Allah? So now, if a person is incapable of stoning, some scholars said, what? It is dropped, because all obligatory acts are dropped due to incapacity. And some of them said: Let him delegate, he delegates. And they relied on a hadith in *al-Sunan*: that the Companions used to stone on behalf of the young children. They said: If the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), who are the best of this nation, indeed the best of all people, used to delegate on behalf of their children in stoning, this indicates the permissibility of stoning, and they did this in the presence of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And this opinion is more cautious and more absolving of the conscience: that whoever finds stoning difficult should delegate. Did you understand, everyone? Good. And the delegate, do we say: Stone the three on your own behalf and then return, or stone them all in one location? The second, in one location, because this is the apparent action of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them); they did not say: So we used to stone on our own behalf and then return and stone on behalf of our children. So you stone seven on your own behalf first, then on behalf of your delegate in the first pillar, then in the second likewise, then in the third. Another issue: If a person delegates someone to stone on his behalf, is it permissible for him to leave Mina before the delegate stones? The apparent ruling is yes, it is permissible, because his remaining in Mina until after the sun passes its zenith is only for the sake of stoning, and the stoning is now dropped from him and attached to the delegate, so he is allowed to leave. But he is not allowed to perform the farewell tawaf until the delegate stones. He is not allowed to perform the farewell tawaf until the delegate stones. And based on this, let him specify a certain time. He says to his delegate: When do you think you will finish stoning? He says: I think I will finish stoning at two o'clock. So when two o'clock is reached, then what? He performs the farewell tawaf, and there is no harm. This is if they had not agreed that their farewell tawaf would be together. In that case, he waits until his companions arrive and they perform it together. And perhaps we will limit ourselves to this extent.