Sacrifice & Qurbani

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to sacrifice a choice, horned ram with black round the eyes, the mouth and the feet.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Sacrifice only a full-grown animal unless it is difficult for you, in which case sacrifice a lamb.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) distributed sacrificial animals among his Companions. He gave me a kid (of less than a year). I took it to him and said: This is a kid. He said: Sacrifice it. so I sacrificed it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

On the authority of his father: We were with a man from the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) called Mujashi' who belonged to Banu Sulaim. There was a scarcity if goats (in those days). He commanded a man to announce...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) delivered a sermon to us on the day of sacrifice after the prayer. He said: If anyone prays like our prayer, and sacrifices like our sacrifice, his sacrifice is all right. If anyone sacrifices before...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

A maternal uncle of mine called AbuBurdah sacrificed before the prayer (for 'Id). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Your goat is meant for flesh. He said: Messenger of Allah, I have a domestic kid with me. He said: Sacrifice...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I asked al-Bara' ibn Azib: What should be avoided in sacrificial animals? He said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us, and my fingers are smaller than his fingers, and my fingertips are smaller than his fingertips. He said...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I came to Utbah ibn AbdusSulami and said: AbulWalid, I went out seeking sacrificial animals. I did not find anything which attracted me except an animal whose teeth have fallen. So I abominated it. What do you say (about it)?...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) enjoined upon us to pay great attention to the eye and both ears, and not to sacrifice a one-eyed animal, and an animal with a slit which leaves something hanging at the front or back...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

The Prophet (ﷺ) prohibited to sacrifice an animal with a slit ear and broken horn. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Jurayy (b. Kulaib) is Sadusi, and belongs to Basrah. No one narrated traditions from him except Qatadah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

I asked Sa'id b. al-Musayyab: What is meant by animal with a slit ear and broken horn ? He replied: Half and more than half.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

We performed tamattu' during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), sacrificed a cow for seven and a camel for seven people. We shared them.

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...