those. Then I saw him remain silent about this and do nothing; then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, died without prohibiting it. Then ʿUmar intended to prohibit it, but abandoned the matter.” Recorded by Muslim (6/172).
Note: His saying, “Then he died without prohibiting it,” is only according to Jābir’s knowledge. Otherwise, Samurah ibn Jundub retained the Prophet’s prohibition of it, as Muslim and others narrated. See al-Targhīb (3/85).
2144 — “Use the small pebbles used for flicking when stoning the Jamrah.”
Recorded by Muslim (4/71), al-Nasāʾī (2/49), al-Bayhaqī (5/127), and Aḥmad (1/210 and 213), from Abū al-Zubayr, from Abū Maʿbad, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, from al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to the people as they set out on the evening of ʿArafah and on the morning at Jamʿ: “Remain calm,” while restraining his camel. Then, when he entered Minā and descended through al-Muḥassir, he said the above. He added: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, gestured with his hand as a person flicks a pebble. Abū al-Zubayr explicitly stated that he heard it in a narration of Aḥmad and others.
Benefit: Al-Nasāʾī gave this hadith the heading: “Where are the pebbles to be collected from?” Thereby, he indicated that they are to be collected in Minā. The hadith explicitly establishes this, since the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, only instructed them to do so when he descended through al-Muḥassir, which is part of Minā, as stated in the narration of Muslim and al-Bayhaqī. This is also indicated by the apparent meaning of the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to me on the morning of al-ʿAqabah, while he was on his mount: “Pick some up for me.” So I picked up some pebbles for him, which were small pebbles used for flicking. When I placed them in his hand, he said: “Use ones like these, and beware of excess in religion; for excess in religion destroyed those who came before you.” Recorded by al-Nasāʾī, al-Bayhaqī, and Aḥmad (1/215 and 247), with an authentic chain of transmission.