Is it permissible to delay the stoning of the pillars on the first day of the days of Tashriq until the crowd disperses in order to avoid causing hardship to others?
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The questioner : Is it permissible to delay the stoning of the pillars on the first day of the days of Tashriq until the crowd disperses so that I do not cause hardship to others?
The Shaykh : We must tell our Muslim brothers what we know of the Sunnah. The stoning of the Jamrat al-Aqabah on the Day of 'Id is from the last part of the night of 'Id until the dawn of the eleventh day, but it is better for those who are able not to stone until the sun rises. The stoning of the pillars on the days of Tashriq is from the midday, meaning from the time of the Zuhr prayer, until the dawn of the second day. So on the eleventh, it is from the midday until the dawn of the twelfth, and likewise the stoning on the twelfth is from the midday until the dawn, meaning the dawn of the thirteenth. On the thirteenth, it is from the midday until the setting of the sun, and there is no stoning after the setting of the sun on the thirteenth because the days of Tashriq end. However, on the twelfth, whoever wants to hasten should strive to stone before the setting of the sun. But if it is assumed that the stoning is delayed past the setting of the sun due to inability, because the travel is not fast or because the severe crowd remains until the sun sets, there is no harm in stoning after the setting of the sun and continuing. In this case, it is not obligatory for him to stay overnight in Mina, because the man prepared and intended to hasten and left his tent, but was held up either by the movement of cars or by the severe crowd until the sun set. It is not permissible to stone before the midday on the days of Tashriq, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stoned after the midday and said: And whoever stones before the midday has not taken his rituals from him, but rather hastened. And because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was waiting with impatience, as they say, for the sun to set, as evidenced by the fact that as soon as the sun sets, he stones before praying Zuhr. This necessitates that he delay the Zuhr prayer, and if stoning before the midday were permissible, he would have stoned before the midday in order to pray Zuhr in its first time.
Thirdly: It was not the case that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who is the most merciful of creation to his Ummah, would delay the stoning until the sun sets and the heat becomes intense, while stoning before that is permissible. Because it is known that the way of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was that whenever he was given a choice between two matters, he would choose the easier of them, as long as it was not a sin. How many are these? Three aspects?
Fourthly: He did not permit the weak to stone before the midday, just as he permitted them on the night of 'Id to advance and stone the pillar before the dawn.
As for the statement of some people that this is a hardship, we say: Praise be to Allah, there is no hardship greater than what the hardship is at the midday on the twelfth. If the crowd remains, delay it to 'Asr. If the crowd remains, delay it to Maghrib. If the crowd remains, delay it to 'Isha. You have until the dawn, so where is the hardship? The statement of some people: It is not possible for two million people to stone in this place from the midday to the sunset. This is also a fallacy, because first, whoever says that the pilgrims reach two million, that is one thing. Second, if they reach two million, does everyone stone with their own hand? Many of them are delegated. Third, we say: There is no evidence that the time of stoning ends with the sunset of the sun, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) defined its beginning and did not define its end. So it is obligatory for Muslims to follow what the Sunnah indicates. And we must know that not every time a hardship occurs, it is permissible to change the fundamentals of worship. Otherwise, we would say that if a person finds the Zuhr prayer difficult at the time of midday, it is permissible for him to pray it at the beginning of the day because it is easier, even though the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered, when the heat is intense in the Zuhr prayer, to cool off with the prayer, and did not say to advance it to the beginning of the day. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. The questioner is from Jazan, Q N M, he says.
The Shaykh : We must tell our Muslim brothers what we know of the Sunnah. The stoning of the Jamrat al-Aqabah on the Day of 'Id is from the last part of the night of 'Id until the dawn of the eleventh day, but it is better for those who are able not to stone until the sun rises. The stoning of the pillars on the days of Tashriq is from the midday, meaning from the time of the Zuhr prayer, until the dawn of the second day. So on the eleventh, it is from the midday until the dawn of the twelfth, and likewise the stoning on the twelfth is from the midday until the dawn, meaning the dawn of the thirteenth. On the thirteenth, it is from the midday until the setting of the sun, and there is no stoning after the setting of the sun on the thirteenth because the days of Tashriq end. However, on the twelfth, whoever wants to hasten should strive to stone before the setting of the sun. But if it is assumed that the stoning is delayed past the setting of the sun due to inability, because the travel is not fast or because the severe crowd remains until the sun sets, there is no harm in stoning after the setting of the sun and continuing. In this case, it is not obligatory for him to stay overnight in Mina, because the man prepared and intended to hasten and left his tent, but was held up either by the movement of cars or by the severe crowd until the sun set. It is not permissible to stone before the midday on the days of Tashriq, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stoned after the midday and said:
Take your rituals from me
خذوا عني مناسككمThirdly: It was not the case that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who is the most merciful of creation to his Ummah, would delay the stoning until the sun sets and the heat becomes intense, while stoning before that is permissible. Because it is known that the way of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was that whenever he was given a choice between two matters, he would choose the easier of them, as long as it was not a sin. How many are these? Three aspects?
Fourthly: He did not permit the weak to stone before the midday, just as he permitted them on the night of 'Id to advance and stone the pillar before the dawn.
As for the statement of some people that this is a hardship, we say: Praise be to Allah, there is no hardship greater than what the hardship is at the midday on the twelfth. If the crowd remains, delay it to 'Asr. If the crowd remains, delay it to Maghrib. If the crowd remains, delay it to 'Isha. You have until the dawn, so where is the hardship? The statement of some people: It is not possible for two million people to stone in this place from the midday to the sunset. This is also a fallacy, because first, whoever says that the pilgrims reach two million, that is one thing. Second, if they reach two million, does everyone stone with their own hand? Many of them are delegated. Third, we say: There is no evidence that the time of stoning ends with the sunset of the sun, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) defined its beginning and did not define its end. So it is obligatory for Muslims to follow what the Sunnah indicates. And we must know that not every time a hardship occurs, it is permissible to change the fundamentals of worship. Otherwise, we would say that if a person finds the Zuhr prayer difficult at the time of midday, it is permissible for him to pray it at the beginning of the day because it is easier, even though the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered, when the heat is intense in the Zuhr prayer, to cool off with the prayer, and did not say to advance it to the beginning of the day. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. The questioner is from Jazan, Q N M, he says.