What is the ruling on not staying overnight in Mina?
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The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
May Allah reward you, O Shaykh. If a person does not stay overnight in Mina during the nights of the days of Tashriq, is a sacrificial animal required of him? Is the correct view that a sacrificial animal is required of him, as the jurists say, or is it not required?
The Shaykh : The jurists say: Staying overnight in Mina during the nights of Mina is obligatory, and the penalty for leaving it is a sacrificial animal that is slaughtered in Makkah and distributed to the poor.
And this opinion, even if it is not strong in terms of theoretical consideration, is [strong] in terms of practice and the training of the soul, because we...
If we told people that it is not obligatory, they would not strive for it and would not care about it. So it is better and more desirable for the matter to remain respected and honored in the hearts of people. And the one who is unable to slaughter a fidyah owes nothing.
May Allah reward you, O Shaykh. If a person does not stay overnight in Mina during the nights of the days of Tashriq, is a sacrificial animal required of him? Is the correct view that a sacrificial animal is required of him, as the jurists say, or is it not required?
The Shaykh : The jurists say: Staying overnight in Mina during the nights of Mina is obligatory, and the penalty for leaving it is a sacrificial animal that is slaughtered in Makkah and distributed to the poor.
And this opinion, even if it is not strong in terms of theoretical consideration, is [strong] in terms of practice and the training of the soul, because we...
If we told people that it is not obligatory, they would not strive for it and would not care about it. So it is better and more desirable for the matter to remain respected and honored in the hearts of people. And the one who is unable to slaughter a fidyah owes nothing.