Part 5

2551 - On the authority of 'Aeysha that the Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallamsaid: 'There is no other day in which Allaah frees more slaves from the fire than the Day of 'Arafah. Indeed, He comes close to them then boasts about them to the Angels and then He says: 'What do these people want?' S a l a f i P u b l i c a t i o n s . c o m Page 14 Jamaraat No. 2515 - On the authority of Ibn Abbas who said that the Messenger of Allaah - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam said: 'If you stone the Jamaar (pillars) it will be as light for you on the Day of Judgement.' No. 1437 - The Messenger - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam said: 'Stone the Jamarah with pebbles the size of chick peas.' Gathering the Pebbles for Stoning the Jamaraat from Mina and not from Muzdalifah No. 2144 - On the authority of al-Fadl bin Abbas who said the Messenger of Allaah - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam said to the people when they left on the evening of 'Arafat and Muzdalifah: 'You should be tranquil.' He said this while he was preventing his female camel from speeding until he entered Mina and descended in a place between Mina and Muzdalifah. Then he said: 'You should take pebbles the size of chick peas, with which you can stone the Jamarah.' Then al-Fadl said: 'and the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallamwas demonstrating with his hand just as when a person throws.' sahih Silsilah-Saheehah Shaykh Albaani said: 'Benefit: Nisa'ee wrote a chapter heading for this hadith saying: 'From where does one collect the pebbles?' indicating by this that collecting pebbles takes place in Mina and the hadith regarding this is clear. This is because the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallamordered them to do this when he stopped at a place called 'Muhassir', while he was in Mina, as is mentioned in the narration of Muslim and al-Bayhaqi. What also indicates this is the apparent hadith of Ibn 'Abbas who said: The Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallamsaid to me on the morning of 'Aqabah while he was on his she-camel: 'Collect small stones for me.' So I collected small pebbles for him which were like chickpeas and when I placed them in his palm, he said: 'The likes of these (type and size stones), O you people. Beware of exaggerating in the Deen, as indeed what destroyed those before you was exaggeration in the Deen.' Narrated by Nisa'ee, al-Bayhaqi and Ahmad (1/215,247) with an authentic chain. Indeed the evidence here is his saying: 'early at 'Aqabah' by which he means the early morning in which you stone the large Jamarat al-'Aqabah, and from what is apparent from the hadith is that the act of collecting the pebbles took place in Mina, near the Jamarah. As for what people S a l a f i P u b l i c a t i o n s . c o m Page 15 do today, collecting pebbles in Muzdalifah, we do not know an origin for it in the Sunnah, rather it opposes these two ahadeeth and it contains burden and inconvenience with no benefit.' Does the Person Performing Hajj Walk to the Jamarah to Stone it?