For this reason a group of scholars concluded that the cause of shortening the prayer in Minā is the state of ritual devotion itself, a view held by some Mālikīs and others. They remarked: Whoever claims that the Prophet ﷺ used to say in Minā to the Meccans, “Complete your prayer, for we are travelers,” is mistaken; the Messenger of Allah ﷺ uttered that statement only during the Year of the Conquest while he was encamped at al-Abṭaḥ, as mentioned earlier—Allah knows best.

The Prophet ﷺ would stone the three Jamrahs each day in Minā after the sun had passed the zenith, as Jābir related above. He performed the rite on foot, as Ibn ʿUmar narrated: seven pebbles at every Jamrah, pronouncing the takbīr with each pebble, pausing at the first, and at the second standing to supplicate Allah, but he did not pause at the third.

Abū Dāwūd said (1): ʿAlī ibn Baḥr and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd—conveying the same report—narrated to us; they said: Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “On the last day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ departed after performing the Ẓuhr Prayer, then returned to Minā and remained there throughout the Days of Tashrīq. Once the sun had passed its meridian he would stone the Jamrah—each Jamrah with seven pebbles—pronouncing the takbīr with every pebble. He would stand at the first and the second, standing for a long time in humble supplication, and he would stone the third without pausing at it.” Abū Dāwūd alone recorded this ḥadīth.

Al-Bukhārī (3) narrated, through several chains, from Yūnus ibn Yazīd, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar, that he used to stone the lower Jamrah with seven pebbles, saying the takbīr after each pebble. He would then move forward to an open area, face the qiblah, and stand for a long time in supplication, raising his hands. He would then stone the middle Jamrah, move slightly to the left into an open space, face the qiblah, raise his hands, and stand for a lengthy period in prayer. Finally, he would stone Jamrat al-ʿAqabah from the bottom of the valley without pausing there, after which he would depart, saying, “This is how I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do it.”

Wabra ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: “Ibn ʿUmar stood at al-ʿAqabah for a period equal to the recitation of Sūrat al-Baqarah.” Abū Mijlaz said: “I estimated his standing to be about the time it takes to recite Sūrat Yūsuf.” Both reports were cited by al-Bayhaqī (7).

Imām Aḥmad said (8): Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, from his father, from Abū al-Baddaḥ (9), from his father, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ granted the herdsmen a concession to stone the Jamrah one day and omit it the next.