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ANIMALS FOR THE UPCOMING EID SACRIFICE

THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum Al-Ithnayn, 6th day of Dhul Hijjah (Monday 27th July, 2020).
*_ANIMALS FOR THE UPCOMING EID SACRIFICE_*. BismilLah. 

Eid sacrifice is a Sunnah (recommended act) for any Muslim who is able to do it. Slaughtering the 'Eid sacrifice is better than giving its value in charity. If you are living abroad and cannot find a suitable animal to sacrifice, you can pay money to Islamic charities who buy the animals and slaughter on your behalf as your sacrifice for the poor to enjoy the meat. The best way for more rewards is to buy and slaughter and be slaughted for you and your family to enjoy, given some to those who couldn't slaughter and some to neighbours even if non Muslims or to let your own family sacrifice on your behalf and enjoy its meat.   

The sacrificed animal should be from the livestock: cows, camels, sheep and goats. As for the prevailing view in this concern might be that the sheep and goats are the best animals for the sacrifice because the Prophet (sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) never slaughtered on the 'Eid any sacrifices except these two kinds of animals. But the camels, the cows and the buffaloes could all be slaughtered as 'Eid sacrifices. 

The 'Eid sacrifice animal should be in a good state and fat enough so that its meat could be eaten. 

The Eid sacrifice animal should be more than six months old if it is a sheep as narrated by Ibn Maajah in a Hadeeth traceable in ascending order to the Prophet as saying: "Only a Jaza'a of sheep can suffice as 'Eid sacrifice'' and the Jaza'a is the sheep that is at least six months old.  

The 'Eid sacrifice animal from the goats, should be at least one year old. The cow, if chosen to be 'Eid sacrifice, two years old. But the camel should not be less than five years old". 

The castrated animal can suffice because the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) observed 'Eed sacrifice with two castrated rams. Also the sheep that was born without a fat tail or which has at least half of its fat tail can suffice as 'Eid sacrifice. 

*_May ALLAH aid us to be able to sacrifice for HIS sake and protect us from any show off*. Aameen.

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