Azami 5175

Muslim narrated it in Hajj (1218) through Hatim bin Ismail Madani, from Jafar bin Muhammad, from his father, from Jabir, and he mentioned it in the description of the Prophet's ﷺ Hajj.As for what was narrated from Qatada, who said, I heard Abu Majliz say, "I asked Ibn Abbas about something concerning the pebbles. He said, 'I do not know whether the Messenger of Allah ﷺ threw six or seven.'" This is shadh (anomalous). Abu Dawud (1977) and Nasai (3078) both narrated it through Khalid bin Harith, who said, Shuba told us, from Qatada, who said, I heard Abu Majliz say, and then he mentioned it. Imam Ahmad (3522) narrated it by another route from Shuba, from Qatada, from Abu Majliz, that a man came to Ibn Abbas and said, "I threw six or seven." He said, "I do not know whether the Messenger of Allah ﷺ threw the pebble six or seven times." Its chain contains shudhudh (anomaly) and contradicts what is established with certainty from the practice of the Prophet ﷺ and his companions, that they threw seven pebbles. Bayhaqi (5/149) also narrated it through Hammad bin Salama, who said, Sulayman Taymi told us, from Abu Majliz, that a man asked Ibn Umar, saying, "I threw the pebble, but I do not know whether I threw six or seven." He said, "Go to that man," meaning Ali . So he went and asked him, and he said, "As for me, if I had done that in my prayer, I would have repeated the prayer." So he came back and informed him of that, and he said, "He spoke truly," or, "He spoke well."In this report is Ali bin Abu Talib's ruling that one who is uncertain about the number should repeat the throwing, which contradicts what was narrated from Ibn Abbas.On this subject there is also what was narrated from Jabir, who said, "I do not know how many times the Prophet ﷺ threw." Imam Ahmad (14832) narrated it from Sulayman bin Hayan, from Ibn Jurayj, from Abu Zubayr, from Jabir, and he mentioned it. He also narrated it (15208) from Rawh, who said, Ibn Jurayj told us, Abu Zubayr informed me that he heard Jabir bin Abdullah say, "And I do not know how many times he threw the pebble." This contradicts what is established from Jabir bin Abdullah in the description of the Prophet's ﷺ Hajj which Muslim narrated, as mentioned shortly before, in which it states plainly, without doubt, that the Prophet ﷺ threw seven pebbles, and certainty takes precedence over doubt.It was also narrated from Saad bin Abu Waqqas, whose name was Malik, who said, "We threw the pebbles, or the pebble, during our Hajj with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then we sat discussing it among ourselves. Some of us said, 'I threw six,' some said, 'I threw seven,' some said, 'I threw eight,' and some said, 'I threw nine,' and they saw no harm in that." Imam Ahmad (1439) narrated it from Affan, from Abdul-Warith, who said, Ibn Abu Najeeh told us, saying, I asked Tawus about a man who threw the pebble six times, and he said, "Let him feed a handful of food." He said, then I met Mujahid and asked him, mentioning to him what Tawus had said. He said, "May Allah have mercy on Abu Abdul-Rahman. Has the statement of Saad bin Malik not reached him?" And he said, then he mentioned it.Nasai (3077) and Bayhaqi (5/149) both narrated it through Sufyan bin Uyayna, from Ibn Abu Najeeh, mentioning it in brief. Ibn Turkmani said in Jawhar Naqi, he remained silent about it. Ibn Qattan said, "I do not know of Mujahid having heard directly from Saad." Tahawi said in Ahkam Quran, it is a disconnected hadith, and people of the chain do not establish such a thing. Ibn Jareer mentioned in Tahdheeb that this was not consistently acted upon, because it was not established as sound due to the disagreement among the narrators from Ibn Abu Najeeh about it. Hajjaj bin Artah narrated it from him, from Mujahid, from Saad, that their disagreement in throwing was over exceeding seven, not falling short of it, and this is more likely to be correct even though it comes through Hajjaj's narration, because it agrees with what the reports consistently show, that seven throws are obligatory, and because Saad did not mention that this was done by the Prophet's command or practice, and because even if it were sound, it would be abrogated by the widely transmitted reports establishing the obligation of seven. That is the end of his statement.I say, it is as he said, for the sound view held by the majority of scholars is that the obligation is seven pebbles, as is established from the hadith of Abdullah bin Abbas, Jabir, Abdullah bin Umar, Ibn Masud, Ayesha, and others, as Muhibb Tabari mentioned in his book Qura (p. 440), where he said, "The doubt of the one who doubts does not affect the certainty of the one who is certain."As for one who throws fewer than seven, some of the successors, such as Ataa, held that if he throws five, it suffices him. Mujahid said, if he throws six, nothing is required of him, and Ahmad, Ishaq, and others held this view as well. I have discussed this in detail in Minna Kubra (4/242), so refer to it, for it contains other matters relating to the throwing of pebbles.