Sahih Muslim 12211

Apostle of Allah, it is the day of meat and it is not desirable (to have longing for it and not to make use of it immediately), so I hastened in offering my animal as a sacrifice, so that I might feed my family and neighbours and my kith and kin. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) […]

Sahih Muslim 12212

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) delivered an address on the day (of Nahr) in which he said: None of you should offer sacrifice of animals until he has completed the (‘Id) prayer. Thereupon my maternal uncle said: Messenger of Allah, it is the day of meat, so it is not desirable (to keep my family in the […]

Sahih Muslim 12213

He who observes prayer like our prayer and turns his face towards our Qibla (in prayer) and who offers sacrifices (of animals) as we do, he must not slaughter the (animal as a sacrifice) until he has completed the prayer. Thereupon my maternal uncle said: Messenger of Allah, I have sacrificed the animal on behalf […]

Sahih Muslim 12214

The first (act) with which we started our day (the day of ‘Id-ul Adha) was that we offered prayer. We then returned and sacrificed the animals and he who did that in fact adhered to our Sunnah (practice). And he who slaughtered the (animal on that day before the ‘Id prayer), for him (the slaughtering […]

Sahih Muslim 12215

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of al-Bara’ b. ‘Azib through another chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim 12216

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) addressed us on the day of Nahr after the (‘Id) prayer. The rest of the hadith is the same.

Sahih Muslim 12217

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) addressed us on the day of Nahr and said: None should sacrifice the animal unless he has completed the (‘Id) prayer. A person said: I have a milch goat of less than one year, better than two fat goats. Thereupon he said: Sacrifice it, and no goat of less than a year […]

Sahih Muslim 12204

Jabir b. ‘Abdullah reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) forbade that any beast should be killed after it has been tied.

Sahih Muslim 12205

I was with Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) on the day of ‘Id al-Adha. While he had not returned after having offered (the Id prayer) and finished it, he saw the flesh of the sacrificial animals which had been slaughtered before he had completed the prayer. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: One who slaughtered his sacrificial […]

Sahih Muslim 12206

I was with Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) (on the occasion) of ‘Id al-Adha. After he had completed the prayer with people, he found that the goats had been slaughtered, whereupon he said: He who slaughtered sacrificial animal before the prayer should slaughter a goat (again) in its stead and he who has not slaughtered he should […]