Is it permissible to stone the Jamarat on the Day of Sacrifice before the sun rises due to dire necessity?

The questioner : Regarding stoning the Jamarat on the day of the festival, as you know, many scholars permit stoning before the sun rises.

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.

The questioner : So, from the perspective of dire necessity, if a person is bound to a group in one of the caravans and cannot leave them, is it permissible for him to stone before the sun rises?

The Shaykh : And why is he unable to leave them?

The questioner : He might get lost from them, or he might...

The Shaykh : It is not permissible for a Muslim to assume that Allah will not aid the one who fears Allah; rather, he should assume the exact opposite, based on the well-known verse In fact, Muslims today are very lenient; they immediately assume dire necessities. Just now, I think it was a quarter to nine, shortly before the adhan, a questioner called me and said he had a question. I told him, "Do you not know that questions are not asked after Isha?" He said, "There is a dire necessity." I asked, "What is the dire necessity, my brother?" He said, "Excuse me, we were walking to the mosque, and now, if Allah wills, we will pray and then ask you." See, he immediately assumed what the necessity was in order to get the answer, yet there was no necessity. So my point, may Allah reward you, is that we should not rush to assume dire necessities, but rather think about taking all the measures that do not lead us to violate the ruling of the Shari'ah. A few days ago, a questioner asked me about performing Hajj by hired bus. Naturally, I advised him that if you are compelled to travel with the group by bus, do not tie your fate to theirs in several areas. First, if they depart from Makkah on the eighth day, they do not go to Mina to spend the night in Mina and then depart from there on the morning of the Day of 'Arafah to 'Arafah; rather, they take them directly to 'Arafah. Therefore, you should intend to separate from them from that moment and not go with them to 'Arafah on the eighth day. The important thing is that I advised the man to intend to separate, go to Mina, and spend the night there, then go to 'Arafah, if Allah wills, on foot, according to his ability and energy, or if Allah wills, take many hired buses there. Likewise, do not ride the bus from 'Arafah to Muzdalifah, because most of the time they transfer them immediately to Mina, causing him to miss spending the night in Muzdalifah. I recall, perhaps about thirty years ago, that I and some of my Syrian brothers, although I had a car at my disposal, left it in Mina and performed these rites on foot. We went from Mina to 'Arafah, from 'Arafah to Muzdalifah, from Muzdalifah to the Jamarat, and from the Jamarat to the Tawaf of Ifadah on foot, and this is an easy matter. But for one who is tied to a car, I advised him to know the area where they will disembark in Mina, and likewise in 'Arafah, so that he can spend the night in a tent or stay under a tent. And on this basis, we say that the one who wants to stone the Jamarat must delay until the sun rises, due to the explicit hadith from Ibn 'Abbas, even though he was among the weak ones to whom the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted to depart before the Fajr prayer. The weak ones, He said to them, Therefore, one should not advance the stoning before the sun rises. In my opinion, if the matter is between advancing the stoning before the sun rises and delaying it until after the sun has passed its zenith, the latter is better than the former. Then, if this delay, for example at the zenith, is hindered by crowding or intense heat or the like, he can delay until the evening, as came in the hadith, "I did not stone except when it was evening." He said, As for stoning before the sun rises, this is a clear violation of the hadith. Therefore, I mention and warn about two things: first, that we do not assume dire necessity in advance and beforehand; and second, that we keep in mind the rule that completes their saying, "Dire necessities permit the prohibited," which is their saying, "Dire necessity is measured by its extent." So if the matter is between stoning before the sun rises and stoning after the end of the time they define as from the sun rising to the zenith, it is better to stone after the zenith due to the hadith, "I did not stone except when it was evening." He said, Is that clear?