if their number were unusually small, in which case they must make it up, according to the soundest view. Should they stand on the eighth day and realize this before the proper time expires, they are obliged to stand again within the prescribed period; if they discover the error only after the time has elapsed, they must make it up, also according to the sound view.

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They spend the night at Muzdalifah. Whoever departs from it after midnight—or even before midnight but returns before dawn—incurs no liability. Anyone who is absent from Muzdalifah during the second half of the night must slaughter a compensatory animal; whether this is obligatory is the subject of two opinions. It is recommended to send the women and the weak ahead to Mina after midnight, while the others remain until they pray the dawn prayer in the pre-dawn darkness. They then proceed to Mina, taking from Muzdalifah the pebbles for the stoning. When they reach the Sacred Monument (al-Mashʿar al-Harām) they pause there, supplicating until daybreak, after which they move on and reach Mina after sunrise. At that point each person throws seven pebbles at the Jamrat al-ʿAqabah, ceasing the talbiyah with the first throw and uttering the takbīr with every pebble. Those who have a sacrificial animal then slaughter it, after which they shave or shorten their hair—shaving is preferable—while a woman merely shortens hers. Shaving the head is itself a rite, according to the well-known position, and the minimum is the removal of three hairs, whether by shaving, clipping, plucking, burning, or cutting. As for someone who has no hair, it is recommended to pass the razor over his scalp. Once he has shaved or shortened, he enters Mecca, performs the circumambulation that is a pillar of the pilgrimage, and makes the saʿy if he has not already done so; thereafter he returns to Mina.

This stoning, sacrifice, shaving, and circumambulation are recommended to be carried out in the order just mentioned. Their time begins at midnight on the Night of Sacrifice; the period for stoning lasts until the end of the Day of Sacrifice, while slaughtering is not confined to a specific time.

I say: The correct view is that slaughtering is confined to the time allotted for the uḍḥiyah, and this will be explained—Allah knows best—at the end of the chapter on the prohibitions of iḥrām. As for shaving, circumambulation, and saʿy, they have no final time limit. And if we consider shaving itself a rite