The Book of ad-Dahaya (Sacrifices)

Asma reported: We slaughtered a horse during the time of the Messenger of Allah while we were in Madinah, and we ate it.

Amir ibn Wathilah reported that a man asked Ali: Did the Messenger of Allah tell you something privately that he did not tell other people? Ali became angry until his face reddened and said: He told me nothing privately that he did not tell the people, except that he told me four statements when we were alone in the house: May Allah curse whoever curses his father; may Allah curse whoever sacrifices to anyone other than Allah; may Allah curse whoever shelters an offender; and may Allah curse whoever alters the boundary markers of the land.

Ibn Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade eating the meat of sacrificial animals after three days.

Abu Ubayd, the freedman of Ibn Awf, reported: I witnessed Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah honor his face, on a festival day. He began with the prayer before the sermon and prayed without a call or announcement. Then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah forbid anyone to keep any part of his sacrificial animal for more than three days.

Ali ibn Abi Talib reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade you from eating the meat of your sacrificial animals for more than three days.

Jabir ibn Abdullah reported that the Messenger of Allah first forbade eating sacrificial meat after three days, then said: Eat, take provisions, and store it.

Abu Said al-Khudri returned from a journey, and his family offered him sacrificial meat. He said: I will not eat until I ask. He went to his maternal half-brother Qatadah ibn al-Numan, who had been at Badr, and asked him. Qatadah said: After you left, a change occurred, reversing the earlier prohibition on eating sacrificial meat after three days.

Abu Said al-Khudri reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade eating sacrificial meat after three days. Then Qatadah ibn al-Numan, Abu Said maternal brother and a veteran of Badr, arrived. They offered him some, and he asked: Did not the Messenger of Allah forbid this? Abu Said said: Something changed later. The Messenger of Allah forbade us from eating it for more than three days, then allowed us to eat it and store it.

Buraydah reported that the Messenger of Allah said: I had forbidden you three things: visiting graves; now visit them, for that may increase you in good. I had forbidden you from eating sacrificial meat after three days; now eat it and keep as much as you wish. I had forbidden you to drink from certain vessels; now drink from any vessel you wish, but do not drink anything intoxicating. Muhammad, one of the narrators, omitted the phrase keep as much as you wish.

Buraydah reported that his father said: The Messenger of Allah said: I had forbidden you from sacrificial meat after three days, from making nabidh except in a waterskin, and from visiting graves. Now eat as much sacrificial meat as you wish, take provisions, and store it. Whoever wishes to visit graves may do so, for they remind one of the Hereafter. Drink from any vessel, but avoid every intoxicant.

Aishah reported that a group of desert people arrived at the time of the Sacrifice. The Messenger of Allah said: Eat and store meat for three days. Later they said: Messenger of Allah, people used to benefit from their sacrifices, rendering the fat and making waterskins. He asked: What is the matter? They said: You had forbidden us to keep sacrificial meat. He said: I forbade it only because of the group who came. Eat, store, and give charity.

Aishah was asked whether the Messenger of Allah had forbidden sacrificial meat after three days. She said: Yes. Hardship had befallen the people, and the Messenger of Allah wanted the wealthy to feed the poor. Then she said: I saw the family of Muhammad eating trotters after fifteen days. Asked why, she laughed and said: The family of Muhammad never ate their fill of bread with a relish for three consecutive days until he joined Allah, the Mighty and Sublime.

Abd al-Rahman ibn Abis reported that his father asked Aishah about sacrificial meat. She said: We used to keep the trotters for the Messenger of Allah for a month, then he would eat them.

Abu Said al-Khudri reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade keeping sacrificial meat for more than three days, then said: Eat and feed others.

Abdullah ibn Mughaffal reported: On the day of Khaybar, a sack of fat was lowered down. I grabbed it and said: I will not give any of this to anyone. I turned and saw the Messenger of Allah smiling.

Aishah reported that some Bedouins used to bring them meat, and they did not know whether Allah name had been invoked over it. The Messenger of Allah said: Invoke the name of Allah over it and eat.

Ibn Abbas explained the verse: Do not eat of that over which the name of Allah has not been mentioned. He said: The polytheists argued with them, saying: What Allah kills, do not eat; what you kill, you eat.

Abu Thalabah reported that the Messenger of Allah said: An animal used as a target is not lawful to eat.

Hisham ibn Zayd reported: Anas and I visited al-Hakam ibn Ayyub and saw people shooting at a chicken in the governor house. Anas said: The Messenger of Allah forbade using animals as targets.

Abdullah ibn Jafar reported that the Messenger of Allah passed by people shooting arrows at a ram. He disapproved and said: Do not mutilate animals.