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Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

Al-Bukhārī also narrated from Ibn Abbās that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“It is as though I can see him: a black, bow-legged man, tearing it down stone by stone.” (1)

Allah Most High says:

“Allah has made the Kaaba, the Sacred House, a means of support for people, as well as the sacred month, the sacrificial animals, and the garlanded offerings.” [Surah al-Mā’idah: 97]

Ibn Abbās—may Allah be pleased with them both—said, “If the people were to abandon Hajj for a single year, they would be granted no respite.” He also said, “If all the people agreed not to perform Hajj, the sky would fall upon the earth.” Imam Ahmad cited this in al-Manāsik (2).

For this reason, more than one of the jurists among the followers of al-Shāfiʿī and Ahmad stated that Hajj is a communal obligation every year.

A catapult is used only against a target that cannot be overcome (3) without it. Thus, “the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—bombarded the people of al-Tā’if with a catapult” when they entered their fortress and barricaded themselves inside. Likewise, when Ibn al-Zubayr and his companions took refuge in the Sacred Mosque, those besieging them bombarded them with catapults because they could not overcome them otherwise. After Ibn al-Zubayr was killed, they entered the Sacred Mosque, circumambulated the Kaaba, and al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf led the people in Hajj that year. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwān had instructed him not to oppose Ibn Umar in matters pertaining to Hajj.

Had they intended evil against the Kaaba, they would have carried it out once they had gained control of it, just as they killed Ibn al-Zubayr once they had gained control of him.

(1) The hadith of Abd Allāh ibn Abbās—may Allah be pleased with them—is found in al-Bukhārī, 2:149 (Book of Hajj, chapter “The Destruction of the Kaaba”), and al-Musnad (Ma'ārif ed.), 3:315–16. Shaykh Ahmad Shākir—may Allah have mercy on him—said: “Afhaj derives from al-fahaj—with the letters fā and hā both bearing a fatha and ending in jīm—and means having the thighs spread apart.” (2) In his book Manāqib al-Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal, p. 248, Ibn al-Jawzī lists al-Manāsik al-Kabīr and al-Manāsik al-Saghīr among Imam Ahmad’s works. (3) MSS N and M read: “those who cannot be overcome.”

وَرَوَى الْبُخَارِيُّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - قَالَ: " «كَأَنِّي بِهِ أَسْوَدَ أَفْحَجَ يَقْلَعُهَا حَجَرًا حَجَرًا» " (١) . وَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {جَعَلَ اللَّهُ الْكَعْبَةَ الْبَيْتَ الْحَرَامَ قِيَامًا لِلنَّاسِ وَالشَّهْرَ الْحَرَامَ وَالْهَدْيَ وَالْقَلَائِدَ} [سُورَةُ الْمَائِدَةِ: ٩٧] قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ - رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا -: لَوْ تَرَكَ النَّاسُ الْحَجَّ سَنَةً وَاحِدَةً لَمَا نُوظِرُوا. وَقَالَ: لَوِ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ عَلَى أَنْ لَا يَحُجُّوا لَسَقَطَتِ السَّمَاءُ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ. ذَكَرَهُ الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ فِي " الْمَنَاسِكِ " (٢) . وَلِهَذَا قَالَ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ مِنَ الْفُقَهَاءِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ الشَّافِعِيِّ وَأَحْمَدَ: إِنَّ الْحَجَّ كُلَّ عَامٍ فَرْضٌ عَلَى الْكِفَايَةِ. وَالْمَنْجَنِيقُ إِنَّمَا يُرْمَى بِهِ مَا لَا يُقْدَرُ عَلَيْهِ (٣) بِدُونِهِ، كَمَا «رَمَى النَّبِيُّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - أَهْلَ الطَّائِفِ بِالْمَنْجَنِيقِ» ، لَمَّا دَخَلُوا حِصْنَهُمْ وَامْتَنَعُوا فِيهِ، وَالَّذِينَ حَاصَرُوا ابْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ لَمَّا اسْتَجَارَ هُوَ وَأَصْحَابُهُ بِالْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ رَمَوْهُمْ بِالْمَنْجَنِيقِ، حَيْثُ لَمْ يَقْدِرُوا عَلَيْهِمْ بِدُونِهِ. وَلَمَّا قُتِلَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ دَخَلُوا بَعْدَ هَذَا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ فَطَافُوا بِالْكَعْبَةِ، وَحَجَّ الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ ذَلِكَ الْعَامَ بِالنَّاسِ، وَأَمَرَهُ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ أَنْ لَا يُخَالِفُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ فِي أَمْرِ الْحَجِّ. فَلَوْ كَانَ قَصْدُهُمْ بِالْكَعْبَةِ شَرًّا لَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ تَمَكَّنُوا مِنْهَا، كَمَا أَنَّهُمْ لَمَّا تَمَكَّنُوا مِنِ ابْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ قَتَلُوهُ.

(١) الْحَدِيثُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ - رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ - فِي: الْبُخَارِيِّ ٢/١٤٩ (كِتَابُ الْحَجِّ، بَابُ هَدْمِ الْكَعْبَةِ) ; الْمُسْنَدِ (ط. الْمَعَارِفِ) ٣/٣١٥ ٣١٦. وَقَالَ الشَّيْخُ أَحْمَد شَاكِر - رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ - " أَفْحَجُ: مِنَ الْفَحَجِ بِفَتْحِ الْفَاءِ وَالْحَاءِ وَآخِرُهُ جِيمٌ، وَهُوَ تَبَاعُدُ مَا بَيْنَ الْفَخْذَيْنِ ". (٢) ذَكَرَ ابْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي كِتَابِهِ " مَنَاقِبِ الْإِمَامِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ " ص ٢٤٨ مِنْ مُصَنَّفَاتِ الْإِمَامِ أَحْمَدَ: " الْمَنَاسِكُ الْكَبِيرُ " وَ " الصَّغِيرُ ". (٣) ن، م: مِمَّنْ لَا يُقْدَرُ عَلَيْهِمْ.