Chapters on Sacrifices
كتاب الأضاحي
Chapter 10: One who offers a sheep on behalf of his family
It wasnarrated that ‘Ata’ bin Yasar said
“I asked Abu AyyubAl-Ansari: ‘How were sacrifices offered among you at the time oftheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ)?’ He said: ‘At the time of theProphet (ﷺ),a man would sacrifice a sheep on behalf of himself andthe members ofhis household, and they would eat some of it and givesome to others.Then people started to compete and it because as yousee (nowadays).’”
Chapter 12: Prohibition of slaughtering the sacrifices before the (`Id) prayer
It wasnarrated from Anas bin Malik that a man slaughtered on the DayofSacrifice, (meaning) before the ‘Eid prayer, and the Prophet (ﷺ)ordered him to do it again.
Chapter 13: One who slaughters his sacrifice with his own hand
‘Abdur-Rahman bin Sa’d bin ‘Ammar bin Sa’d, the Mu’adhdhinof theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ), told us
“My father told me, frommygrandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) slaughtered hissacrifice at the side of an alley, on the road of Banu Zuraiq, withhis own hand, using a blade.”