Chapters on Sacrifices

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: al-Thawrī informed us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, from his father, who said: We were with a man from among the Companions of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), named Mujāshiʿ of Banū Sulaym. When sheep became scarce, he ordered a caller to announce that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say, “A young sheep suffices for what an older sheep suffices.”

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Hārūn ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Zuhayr informed us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Do not slaughter anything but a mature animal, unless that is difficult for you; then slaughter a young sheep.”

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Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ narrated to us: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Shurayḥ ibn al-Nuʿmān, from ʿAlī, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade sacrificing an animal with the front of its ear cut, the rear of its ear cut, a split ear, a pierced ear, or a severed ear.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from Ḥujayyah ibn ʿAdī, from ʿAlī, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed us to choose animals with sound eyes and ears.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Abī ʿAdī, and Abū al-Walīd narrated to us; they said: Shuʿbah narrated to us: I heard Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say: I heard ʿUbayd ibn Fayrūz say: I said to al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, “Tell me what the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked or forbade regarding sacrificial animals.” He gestured with his hand—my hand is shorter than his—and said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Four types do not suffice as sacrifices: an animal clearly one-eyed, an animal clearly sick, an animal clearly lame, and a broken, emaciated animal with no marrow.” I said: I dislike an animal with a defect in its ear. He said: Whatever you dislike, leave it, but do not declare it forbidden for anyone else.

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Ḥumayd ibn Masʿadah narrated to us: Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith narrated to us: Saʿīd narrated to us, from Qatādah, who mentioned that he heard Jurayy ibn Kulayb report that he heard ʿAlī narrate that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade sacrificing an animal with a broken horn or ear.

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik Abū Bakr narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, from al-Thawrī, from Jābir ibn Yazīd, from Muḥammad ibn Qarẓah al-Anṣārī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: We bought a ram to sacrifice. A wolf damaged its rump or its ear, so we asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he instructed us to sacrifice it.

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: Ibn Abī Fudayk narrated to us: al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān told me, from ʿUmārah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣayyād, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, who said: I asked Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī how sacrificial offerings were made in the time of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: In the time of the Prophet, a man would offer one sheep as a sacrifice on behalf of himself and his household; they would eat from it and feed others. Then people began vying with one another, and things became as you see now.

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Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr informed us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī and Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf informed us. [A second chain:] Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us. All transmitted from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Bayān, from al-Shaʿbī, from Abū Sarīḥah, who said: My family pressed me toward miserliness, despite what I knew of the Sunnah. Households used to offer one or two sheep as sacrifices, but now our neighbors make us seem miserly.

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Harun ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥammāl narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Umm Salamah, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When the ten days begin and one of you intends to offer a sacrifice, let him not touch anything of his hair or skin.

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Ḥātim ibn Bakr al-Ḍabbī Abū ʿAmr narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bursānī narrated to us. [Another chain:] Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: Abū Qutaybah and Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr narrated to us; they said: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Mālik ibn Anas, from ʿAmr ibn Muslim, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Umm Salamah, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever among you sees the crescent of Dhū al-Ḥijjah and intends to offer a sacrifice, let him not remove any hair or nail.

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ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah narrated to us, from Ayyūb, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Anas ibn Mālik: A man slaughtered on the Day of Sacrifice before the prayer, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered him to do it again.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Aswad ibn Qays, from Jundab al-Bajalī, who said he heard him say: I was present for the Sacrifice with the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). Some people slaughtered before the prayer, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever among you slaughtered before the prayer must slaughter another sacrifice; whoever has not done so should slaughter in the name of God.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAbbād ibn Tamīm, from ʿUwaymir ibn Ashqar, who slaughtered before the prayer and told the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about it. He said: Offer another sacrifice.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us, from Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from Abū Qilābah, from Abū Zayd. Abū Bakr said: Others besides ʿAbd al-Aʿlā reported it from ʿAmr ibn Bujdān, from Abū Zayd. [Another chain:] Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā Abū Mūsā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith narrated to us: my father narrated to us, from Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from Abū Qilābah, from ʿAmr ibn Bujdān, from Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a house belonging to the Anṣār and smelled roasting meat. He said: Who has slaughtered? One of our men came out to him and said: I did, Messenger of God; I slaughtered before praying so I could feed my family and neighbors. He told him to slaughter another. The man said: No, by God, besides whom there is no god, I have nothing except a yearling or a lamb from among the sheep. He said: Slaughter it, but a yearling will not suffice for anyone after you.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us: I heard Qatādah relate from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: I saw the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) slaughter his sacrificial animal with his own hand, placing his foot against its side.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAmmār ibn Saʿd, the caller to prayer of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated to us: My father narrated to me, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) slaughtered his sacrificial animal with his own hand, using a knife, at the edge of the lane on the road of Banū Zurayq.

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Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bursānī narrated to us: Ibn Jurayj informed us: al-Ḥasan ibn Muslim told me that Mujāhid informed him that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā informed him that ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib informed him that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered him to distribute all of his sacrificial camels—their meat, hides, and coverings—to the poor.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that a piece be taken from each camel. They were put in a pot, and they ate the meat and drank the broth.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀbis, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) only prohibited eating the sacrificial meat because people were in hardship; then he granted permission regarding it.