Saying Takbir with each pebble at the Jamarat
al-Takbir ma'a kulli hasah 'inda ramy al-jimar
Overview
With each of the seven pebbles thrown at a jamrah it is sunnah to say 'Allahu Akbar' once — seven takbirs per pillar — as a remembrance accompanying the act of stoning.
Du'a
With each pebble
اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ
Allahu akbar
Allah is the greatest.
One takbir as each of the seven pebbles is thrown at each jamrah (seven takbirs per jamrah).
Source · Sahih al-Bukhari 1750-1751; Sahih Muslim 1296
Grade · Sahih — Muttafaq 'alayh (agreed upon).
Qur'an
No ayah of the Qur'an is cited for this act — the evidence for it is from the Sunnah. See the Hadith below.
Hadith
- •فَرَمَاهَا بِسَبْعِ حَصَيَاتٍ يُكَبِّرُ مَعَ كُلِّ حَصَاةٍ مِنْهَا مِثْلِ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ رَمَى مِنْ بَطْنِ الْوَادِيHe threw at it (Jamrat al-'Aqabah) seven pebbles, saying the takbir (Allahu Akbar) with each pebble, [each the size] of a flicking-pebble, throwing from the bottom of the valley.Reference · Sahih Muslim 1218aGrade · Sahih (Sahih Muslim; Jabir's (RA) Farewell-Hajj narration)
- •He used to stone the nearest jamrah (al-Dunya, by Masjid al-Khayf) with seven pebbles, saying takbir on throwing every pebble; then he would advance... then stone the middle jamrah likewise, then Jamrat al-'Aqabah — and he said, 'Thus I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) do it.'References · Sahih Muslim 1296 · Sahih al-Bukhari 1751Grade · Sahih Muslim 1296: Sahih (Sahih Muslim; Ibn 'Umar (RA)), Sahih al-Bukhari 1751: Sahih (al-Bukhari; Ibn 'Umar (RA)) — its core is mass-corroborated
Applies to
All Hajj types (Tamattu', Qiran, Ifrad) equally, and identically for each pebble on every day of stoning.
If missed
No penalty and no dam; the stoning is valid without it. Omitting the takbir means only that a Sunnah/adab of the ramy was left. The Hajj and the ramy are unaffected.
Timing & place
During the stoning itself — with each of the seven pebbles at each jamrah, on the Day of Nahr (Jamrat al-'Aqabah, the 10th) and on each of the Days of Tashreeq (11th, 12th, and 13th for those who stay), for every jamrah.
At the three jamarat in Mina (al-Sughra/al-Dunya, al-Wusta, al-'Aqabah).
Common mistakes
- •Not saying takbir at all, or saying it once for the whole set instead of once per pebble.
- •Throwing all seven pebbles together in one motion, which both makes the throw count as one and prevents the individual takbir.
- •Substituting invented formulas — e.g. cursing or naming Shaytan, or long fixed du'as at the moment of the throw — for the simple 'Allahu Akbar' that is the established Sunnah.
- •Believing the takbir is obligatory and that omitting it invalidates the stoning (it does not).
Across the madhabs
No divergence between the four schools is recorded for this act in this reference.
Notes
The prescribed utterance with each throw is simply 'Allahu Akbar' (one takbir per pebble), so seven takbirs per jamrah. Some scholars mention adding a brief supplication such as 'Allahumma-j'alhu hajjan mabruran wa dhanban maghfuran' after or with the takbir, but the firmly established Sunnah in the two Sahihs is the takbir. The lengthy standing for du'a facing the qiblah belongs after stoning the first (al-Sughra) and second (al-Wusta) jamarat on the Days of Tashreeq — not after Jamrat al-'Aqabah — and is a separate act from the takbir said during the throwing.