Chapter on a Person Who Sends a Sacrificial Animal but Remains with Their Family
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 2|Book 3|Chapter 148
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 148
Chapter on a Person Who Sends a Sacrificial Animal but Remains with Their Family
رُوِيَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ يَبْعَثُ بِالْهَدْيِ تَطَوُّعاً وَ لَيْسَ بِوَاجِبٍ فَقَالَ «يُوَاعِدُ أَصْحَابَهُ يَوْماً فَيُقَلِّدُونَهُ فَإِذَا كَانَ تِلْكَ اَلسَّاعَةُ اِجْتَنَبَ مَا يَجْتَنِبُهُ اَلْمُحْرِمُ إِلَى يَوْمِ اَلنَّحْرِ فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ اَلنَّحْرِ أَجْزَأَ عَنْهُ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اَللَّهِ صَلَّى اَللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ حِينَ صَدَّهُ اَلْمُشْرِكُونَ يَوْمَ اَلْحُدَيْبِيَةِ نَحَرَ وَ أَحَلَّ وَ رَجَعَ إِلَى اَلْمَدِينَةِ ».
It is narrated from Muawiyah ibn Ammar, who said: I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام about a man who sends a sacrificial animal voluntarily, not as an obligation. Imam عليه السلام said: "He should agree with his companions on a specific day, and they should mark it (as a sacrificial animal). From that moment, he must avoid what a person in Ihram avoids until the Day of Sacrifice. When the Day of Sacrifice arrives, it will suffice for him. Indeed, when the Messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) was barred by the polytheists at Hudaybiyyah, he slaughtered (his sacrificial animal), exited Ihram, and returned to Medina."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 178