648 – ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAdiyy (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that “the Messenger of Allah ﷺ granted a concession to the camel herders allowing them to spend the nights away from Minā. They would stone the pillars on the Day of Sacrifice, then stone again the next day for two days, and finally stone on the Day of Departure.” The Five collected this report, and al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Ḥibbān declared it sound. ⦗1⦘
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Rank of the ḥadīth
The report is ḥasan. Al-Tirmidhī said: “ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.” Ibn Ḥajar states in al-Talkhīṣ that it was transmitted by Mālik, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, the compilers of the Sunan, Ibn Ḥibbān, and al-Ḥākim, who judged it authentic, a verdict with which al-Dhahabī concurred, through the chain of Abū al-Baddāḥ from ʿAdiyy from his father. Mālik also narrated it from Abū al-Baddāḥ from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAdiyy, and Mālik’s version is the sounder of the two. Al-Ḥākim said, “Whoever says ‘from Abū al-Baddāḥ ibn ʿAdiyy’ has ascribed him to his grandfather.” It is also said that Abū al-Baddāḥ himself was a Companion, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr authenticated this in al-Istidhkār.

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• rakhkhasa (he granted a concession): A dispensation that departs from an established legal ruling because of a weightier counter-evidence. Here it means permission to omit the overnight stay in Muzdalifah and Minā on account of their water-service duties.
• li-ruʿāʾ al-ibil (camel herders): plural of rāʿī, one who tends livestock. Ibil denotes camels—males and females alike—and has no singular form derived from the same root; its collective feminine plural is ābāl.