Sacrifice & Qurbani

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A cow serves for seven, and a camel serves for seven.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

We sacrificed along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at al-Hudaybiyyah a camel for seven and a cow for seven people.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I witnessed sacrificing along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at the place of prayer. When he finished his sermon, he descended from his pulpit, and a ram was brought to him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) slaughtered it with...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to slaughter his sacrificial animal at the place of prayer. Ibn 'Umar used to do so.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

Some people of desert came at the time of sacrifice in the time of Apostle of Allah (ﷺ). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Store up for three days and give the rest as sadaqah (alms). After than the people...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: We forbade you to eat their meat for more than three days in order that you might have abundance; now Allah has produced abundance, so you may eat, store up and seek reward. Beware, these days...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sacrificed during a journey and then said: Thawban, mend the meat of this goat. I then kept on supplying its meat until we reached Medina.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

There are two characteristics that I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Allah has decreed that everything should be done in a good way, so when you kill use a good method. The version of the narrators other than...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I entered upon al-Hakam b. Ayyub along with Anas. He saw some youths or boys who had set up a hen and shooting at it. Anas said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to kill an animal in confinement.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The verse: "So eat of (meats) on which Allah's name hath been pronounced" and the verse: "Eat not of (meats) on which Allah's name hath not been pronounced" were abrogated, meaning an exception was made therein by the verse: "The...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

explaining the verse "But the evil ones ever inspire their friend to contend with you" They used to say: Do not eat which Allah killed, but eat which you slaughtered. So Allah revealed the verse: "Eat not of (meats) on...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Jews came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: We eat which we kill but we do not eat which Allah kills? So Allah revealed: "Eat not of (meats) on which Allah's name hath not been pronounced." to the end...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to eat (the meat of animals) slaughtered by the bedouins for vainglory and pride. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Ghundar narrated this tradition as a saying of Ibn 'Abbas (and not of the Prophet).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah, we shall meet the enemy tomorrow and we have no knives with us. May we kill with a sharp-edged white stone (flint) and with splinter of a...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I hunted two hares and slaughtered them with a flint. I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about them. He permitted me to eat them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

A man of Banu Harith was pasturing a pregnant she-camel in one of the ravines of Uhud, (he saw that) it was about to die; he could find nothing to slaughter it; he took a stake and stabbed it in...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I said: Messenger of Allah, tell me when one of us catches game and has no knife; may he slaughter with a flint and a splinter of stick. He said: Cause the blood to flow with whatever you like and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

AbulUshara' reported on the authority of his father: He asked: Messenger of Allah, is the slaughtering to be done only in the upper part of the breast and the throat? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied: If you pierced its...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

Ibn Isa added: (Ibn Abbas) and AbuHurayrah said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the devil's sacrifice. AbuIsa added in his version: This refers to the slaughtered animal whose skin cut off, and is then left to die without its...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the embryo. He replied: Eat it if you wish. Musaddad's version says: we said: Messenger of Allah, we slaughter a she-camel, a cow and a sheep, and we find an embryo in...