while standing by the basin, and feel reluctant to take one from beneath your feet. But if we adopt the stronger view, a person may take one from beneath his feet and throw it.

An objection has been raised against this view: it would entail that all the pilgrims could stone with a single pebble, and it would suffice for them all.

The response is that this objection is untenable, because such a thing is impossible in practice. Who would sit waiting for another, while the second waits for the first, the third waits for the second, and so on until the last of the pilgrims?! Thus, the objection falls away.

His statement, “And he does not remain standing,” means that after stoning the jamrah, he does not stand to supplicate; rather, he proceeds to the place of sacrifice, as the Prophet ﷺ did (1).

Question: From where should one stone Jamrat al-‘Aqabah?

Answer: The jurists say that one should stone Jamrat al-‘Aqabah while facing the qiblah, with the jamrah on one’s right. But this is not possible, especially in our present time, and we cannot imagine that the Prophet ﷺ did so. The correct view is that it should be stoned from the bottom of the valley. The jamrah—as I myself witnessed it—was set against the side of a mountain, though it was not a particularly high mountain; rather, it was at a mountain pass. This is why it is called Jamrat al-‘Aqabah: people would climb up to it. Beneath it was a valley through which rainwater flowed. The Prophet ﷺ stoned it from the bottom of the valley (2); he did not climb the mountain in order to stone it from above. When one stones from the bottom of the valley, Makkah is on his left and Mina on his right. ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, may Allah be pleased with him, did likewise and said, “This