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Sahih Muslim
كتاب الأضاحى
The Book of Sacrifices
" لاَ تَذْبَحُوا إِلاَّ مُسِنَّةً إِلاَّ أَنْ يَعْسُرَ عَلَيْكُمْ فَتَذْبَحُوا جَذَعَةً مِنَ الضَّأْنِ "
Sacrifice only a grown-up animal, unless it is difficult for you, in which case sacrifice a ram (of even less than a year, but more than six months' age).
More from The Book of Sacrifices
Other hadiths from the same chapter
- Hadith 1973
O people of Medina, do not eat the flesh of sacrificed animals beyond three days. Ibn al-Muthanni said: Three days. They (the Companions of the Holy Prophet)…
- Hadith 1968e
Allah's Messenger, we are going to encounter the enemy tomorrow. and we do not have large knives with us. The rest of the hadith is the same, but no mention is…
- Hadith 1960e
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba through another chain of transmitters.
- Hadith 1977c
When any one of you intending to sacrifice the animal enters in the month (of Dhu'l-Hijja) he should not get his hair or nails touched (cut). It was said to…
- Hadith 1971
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade (people) to cat the flesh of sacrificed animals beyond three days. Abdullah b. Abu Bakr said, I made a mention of that to 'Amra,…
- Hadith 1972a
Eat, make a provision, and keep it.