Chapters on Sacrifices

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Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī narrated to us: my father narrated to me. [A second chain:] Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us. Both said: Shuʿbah narrated to us: I heard Qatādah report, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) used to sacrifice two speckled, horned rams. He would pronounce the name of God and proclaim His greatness. I saw him slaughtering them with his own hand, placing his foot on their sides.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Abū ʿAyyāsh al-Zuraqī, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: On a festival day the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) sacrificed two rams. As he turned them toward the direction of prayer, he said: I have turned my face toward the One who originated the heavens and the earth, as a monotheist, and I am not among the polytheists. My prayer, my sacrifice, my life, and my death belong to God, Lord of the worlds. He has no partner. This is what I have been commanded, and I am the first of those who submit. O God, this is from You and for You, on behalf of Muḥammad and his community.

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Sufyān al-Thawrī informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, from Abū Salamah, from ʿĀʾishah and from Abū Hurayrah, that when the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to offer a sacrifice, he would buy two large, fat, horned, speckled, castrated rams. He would slaughter one on behalf of his community, for everyone who affirmed that God is one and bore witness that he had conveyed the message, and slaughter the other on behalf of Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever has the means but does not offer a sacrifice, let him not approach our prayer place.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us: Ibn ʿAwn narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, who said: I asked Ibn ʿUmar whether sacrificial offerings were obligatory. He said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) offered sacrifices, and the Muslims after him did so, and this became the established Sunnah. [A second chain:] Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us: al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾ narrated to us: Jabalāh ibn Suḥaym narrated to us, who said: I asked Ibn ʿUmar, and he mentioned the same report exactly.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAwn, who said: Abū Ramlah informed us, from Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym, who said: We were standing with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at ʿArafah when he said, “People, every household owes a sacrifice and an ʿatīrah each year.” Do you know what an ʿatīrah is? It is what people call the Rajab sacrifice.

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ narrated to us: Abū al-Muthannā told me, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “On the Day of Sacrifice, no deed of a human being is more beloved to God, Mighty and Majestic, than shedding blood. The animal will come on the Day of Resurrection with its horns, hooves, and hair. Its blood reaches a place of acceptance with God, Mighty and Majestic, before it falls to the ground, so offer it wholeheartedly.”

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Muḥammad ibn Khalaf al-ʿAsqalānī narrated to us: Ādam ibn Abī Iyās narrated to us: Sallām ibn Miskīn narrated to us: ʿĀʾidh Allāh narrated to us, from Abū Dāwūd, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said: The Companions of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Messenger of God, what are these sacrificial offerings?” He said, “The Sunnah of your father Abraham.” They said, “Messenger of God, what reward do we get from them?” He said, “For every hair, a good deed.” They said, “And the wool, Messenger of God?” He said, “For every hair of wool, a good deed.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) offered a horned, full-grown ram as a sacrifice, black around its mouth, legs, and eyes.

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb narrated to us: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz informed me: Yūnus ibn Maysarah ibn Ḥalbas narrated to us, who said: We went with Abū Saʿīd al-Zuraqī, a Companion of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), to buy sacrificial animals. Yūnus said: Abū Saʿīd pointed to a dark-mottled ram, neither tall nor short in build, and said to me, “Buy this one for me.” It was as though he considered it like the ram of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him).

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Al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUthmān al-Dimashqī narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us: Abū ʿĀʾidh narrated to us, that he heard Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir report, from Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The best shroud is a ḥullah, and the best sacrificial animal is a horned ram.”

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Hadiyyah ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb informed us: al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā informed us: al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid informed us, from ʿAlbāʾ ibn Aḥmar, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: We were with the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey when the Day of Sacrifice arrived. We shared a camel among ten people and a cow among seven.

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, from Mālik ibn Anas, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said: At al-Ḥudaybiyah we sacrificed a camel with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), sharing it among seven, and a cow, sharing it among seven.

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us: al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: During the Farewell Pilgrimage, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) sacrificed one cow on behalf of the wives who had performed ʿumrah, sharing it among them.

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Hannād ibn al-Sarī narrated to us: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn, from Abū Ḥāḍir al-Azdī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: During the time of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), camels became scarce, so he instructed them to slaughter cows instead.

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Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarḥ al-Miṣrī Abū Ṭāhir informed us: Ibn Wahb informed us: Yūnus informed us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah, that during the Farewell Pilgrimage the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) slaughtered one cow on behalf of the family of Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

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Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bursānī narrated to us: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, who said: ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī reported, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: I owe a sacrificial camel and I can afford one, but I cannot find one to buy. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed him to buy seven sheep and slaughter them.

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Abū Kurayb narrated to us: al-Muḥāribī and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm narrated to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Saʿīd ibn Masrūq. [A second chain:] al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī narrated to us, from Zāʾidah, from Saʿīd ibn Masrūq, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah, from Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: We were with the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) at Dhū al-Ḥulayfah in Tihāmah. We acquired camels and sheep. The people were in a hurry and put the pots on to boil before the meat had been divided. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us and ordered that they be overturned. Then he assigned one camel as equivalent to ten sheep.

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Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ informed us: al-Layth ibn Saʿd informed us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Abū al-Khayr, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him sheep to distribute among his Companions for their sacrifices. One young goat remained, so he mentioned it to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), who said, “Offer it as a sacrifice yourself.”

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī narrated to us: Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaḥyā—the client of the Aslam tribe—told me, from his mother, who said: Umm Bilāl bint Hilāl told me, from her father, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “A young sheep may be offered as a sacrifice.”