Sahih al-Bukhari 976

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ went towards Al-Baqi (the graveyard at Medina) on the day of Id-ul-Adha and offered a two-rakʿat prayer (of ʿId-ul-Adha) and then faced us and said, "On this day of ours, our first act of worship is the offering of prayer and then we will return and slaughter the sacrifice, and whoever does this concords with our Sunna; and whoever slaughtered his sacrifice before that (i.e. before the prayer) then that was a thing which he prepared earlier for his family and it would not be considered as a Nusuk (sacrifice.)" A man stood up and said, "O, Messenger of Allah ﷺ! I slaughtered (the animal before the prayer) but I have a young she-goat which is better than an older sheep." The Prophet ﷺ said to him, "Slaughter it. But a similar sacrifice will not be sufficient for anybody else after you."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6674Sahih al-Bukhari 984Sahih Muslim 1960dMusnad Ahmad 16490al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1712al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19186

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Zubayd b. al-Ḥārith al-Yāmī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 120 AH, or: 122 AH, or: 123 AH, or: 124 AH
   زُبَيْدٍثقة ثبت عابد
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Ṭalḥah

   truthful (ṣadūq), has some lapses (awhām), they denied that he heard from his father; because of his young aged. 167 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ طَلْحَةَصدوق له أوهام ، وأنكروا سماعه من أبيه ؛ لصغره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Nuʿaym

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AH
   أَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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