stone on the third Day of Departure if they have not chosen to leave early.

Scholarly differences of opinion:
The scholars do not differ that the best time for stoning after the Day of Sacrifice is once the sun has passed its zenith, exactly as the Prophet ﷺ did when he said, “Learn your rites from me.” The preferred period ends at sunset. Ibn Rushd remarked: “They are unanimous that the sunnah for the three stone pillars during the Days of Tashrīq is to stone them after the sun declines.”

As for stoning at night, the position of Imām Aḥmad is that its window opens after the sun declines and closes at sunset; nevertheless, one may perform the stoning of one day on the following day, or carry out all the stoning on the final Day of Tashrīq. All of that counts as being within the prescribed time, yet, in his view, stoning at night is not valid.

The other three Imams, however, permit stoning at night. Bada’iʿ al-Ṣanā’iʿ, representing the Ḥanafis, states: “The final limit for stoning on those two days extends into the night; whoever stones before dawn has discharged the duty and incurs no penalty.”

Al-Nawawī wrote in al-Majmūʿ: “Its time lasts until sunset, and there is a well-known view that it continues until the second dawn of that night; this is the correct position for every day except the last, whereas for the last day the time for stoning lapses at sunset without dispute.”

Shaykh Muḥammad al-Shinqīṭī said: “The jurists differed over whether the three Days of Tashrīq are to be treated as a single day with respect to stoning. The correct view is that they are indeed like one day: whoever carries out the stoning of any of them on the last day is deemed to have fulfilled the obligation and incurs no liability. This is the view of Aḥmad, the well-known position of al-Shāfiʿī, and those who agree with them.”

During the Hajj season of 1394 AH, the Constituent Council of the Muslim World League, chaired by Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz, issued a fatwa allowing stoning at night, and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia implemented it when the crowding at the Jamarāt became severe.