The ruling on staying overnight outside Mina during the days of Tashriq

Question: What is the ruling on staying overnight outside Mina during the days of Tashriq, whether that is done intentionally or because it is impossible to find a place there?

Answer: Staying overnight in Mina is obligatory, according to the correct view, on the night of the eleventh and the night of the twelfth. This is the position preferred by the most precise scholars among the people of knowledge, for both men and women among the pilgrims. If they do not find a place, it is dropped from them and they owe nothing. And whoever leaves it without an excuse, a sacrificial animal is due from him.