Jamarat
The Jamarat are three stone pillars at Mina, symbolically stoned with pebbles on set days during hajj. The rite commemorates a moment in the story of Ibrahim. Each pillar is stoned with seven pebbles per session, following a fixed schedule.
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Why is it not Sunnah to supplicate after stoning the Great Jamarah, as it is after the Middle and Small Jamarat?
The fundamental principle is for a Muslim to follow the actions of the Prophet, peace be upon him. It has been authentically established that he, peace be upon him, would stand for a long time supplicating after stoning…
Is there a penalty of blood (dam) incurred by someone who violates the fatwa of his country's mufti regarding the time for stoning the Jamarat on the Day of Sacrifice, relying on another fatwa, knowing that the mufti issued a fatwa stating that the stoning begins from the decline of the sun on the Day of Sacrifice until the end of the Days of Tashreeq, provided that the period between the two stonings is not less than 24 hours?
The Grand Mufti's fatwa does not eliminate disagreement, and it is permissible to contravene it if based on sound evidence, unlike a ruler's decree which is binding on everyone. Throwing the Jamarat Al-Aqaba after…
Is it permissible to spend the night outside Muzdalifah by 200 meters and return home on the Day of Sacrifice, and to appoint someone to stone Jamrat Al-Aqabah due to the illness of a child and the exhaustion of the wife, and to spend the night in Al-Jamarat and stone the pillars after Fajr instead of after Dhuhr?
Your staying outside Muzdalifah due to overcrowding necessitates a fidyah (expiation): a sheep to be slaughtered in Mecca and distributed among its poor. This is the more cautious approach, though some scholars are of…
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What is the ruling on one who was unable to spend the night (mabit) and stone the Jamarat during the days of Tashreeq? And does he thereby forfeit two obligations or one obligation? And if they are two obligations, does appointing someone else to stone on one's behalf (tawkeel) waive one of the two obligations?
What should one do if they cast the pebbles at the Jamarat with stones collected from Muzdalifah, then later read that the throwing is not valid if the stones are made of cement that does not contain gravel, and they do not remember whether their stones contained cement or not?
Is it permissible for the pilgrim to appoint someone to cast the Jamarat on his behalf on the day of Eid or the second day, then return to his country?