and Ibn ʿUmar said, “We used to wait for it; once the sun had declined we would stone.” Reported by al-Bukhārī and Abū Dāwūd. His expression “nataḥayyan” means that we were watching for the required time. This conforms to the Prophet’s ﷺ instruction, “Learn your rites from me.”

Thus, on the eleventh day and every day thereafter, the time for casting the pebbles begins only after the sun has passed its zenith; doing so beforehand is not valid, because these reports show that the Prophet ﷺ fixed its timing by his own practice and he said, “Take your rites from me.” Just as prayer is not permissible before its appointed time, stoning is not permissible before its time, for acts of worship are governed solely by revelation.

The eminent Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH) described the Prophet’s ﷺ stoning as preserved in the sound Sunnah: “After completing the ṭawāf al-ifāḍah, he ﷺ returned to Minā that same day and spent the night there. When morning came, he waited until the sun had passed the meridian; once it had done so, he walked from his lodging to the jamarāt and did not ride. He started with the first jamrah, the one next to Masjid al-Khayf, and threw seven pebbles at it, one after another, saying ‘Allāhu akbar’ with each pebble. Then he moved forward, past the jamrah, until he reached an open area, stood facing the qiblah, raised his hands, and made a lengthy supplication—about the length of Sūrah al-Baqarah. He then proceeded to the middle jamrah and stoned it in the same way; after that he descended toward the left along the side of the valley, stopped facing the qiblah with his hands raised, entered the valley, aligned himself with the jamrah, and he began