Sahih Muslim 1966a
It is recommended to select a good animal for the sacrifice and to slaughter it oneself, not delegating it to anyone else, and to say the name of Allah, and to say the Takbir
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ
ضَحَّى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ بِكَبْشَيْنِ أَمْلَحَيْنِ أَقْرَنَيْنِ ذَبَحَهُمَا بِيَدِهِ وَسَمَّى وَكَبَّرَ وَوَضَعَ رِجْلَهُ عَلَى صِفَاحِهِمَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Abū ʿAwānah
- Qatādah
- Anas
Anas reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ sacrificed with his own hands two horned rams which were white with black markings reciting the name of Allah and glorifying Him (saying Allah-o-Akbar). He placed his foot on their sides (while sacrificing).
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 5558Sahih al-Bukhari 5565Sahih al-Bukhari 7399Sahih Muslim 1966bSahih Muslim 1966cal-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19356
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AHأَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
شرح مشكل الآثار
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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