Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah
ibn Abbas used to say, "The least difficult thing acceptable as a
sacrificial animal is a sheep."
Malik said, "That is what I
like most out of what I have heard about the matter, because Allah,
the Blessed and Exalted, says in His Book, 'O you who trust, do not
kill game while you are in ihram. Whoever of you kills it
intentionally, there shall be repayment the like of what he has slain,
from livestock, as shall be judged by two men of justice among you, a
sacrificial animal which will reach the Kaba, or food for poor people,
or the equivalent of that in fasting,' (Sura 5 ayat 95) and a sheep is
one of the animals which is judged to be acceptable as a sacrifice.
Allah has called it a sacrificial animal, and there is no dispute
among us about the matter. How, indeed, could anyone be in doubt about
the matter? A sheep is the kaffara for anything which does not reach
the extent of something for which a camel or a cow would be the
kaffara, and the kaffara for something which does not reach the extent
of something for which a sheep would be the kaffara is fasting, or
feeding poor people."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 171
from Al-Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib who claimed that he was sitting in Al-Batha with a group, and the Messenger of Allah was sitting amongst them, when a cloud passed over them. They looked at it, and the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Di you know what its name it?’ They said: ‘Yes. This is As-Sahab (cloud).’ The Messenger of Allah saidl: ‘Al-Muzn (rain cloud)?’ They said: ‘Yes. This is As-Sahab (cloud).’ Then the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Do you know how much distance there is between the heavens and the earth?’ They said: ‘No, by Allah we do not know.’ He said: ‘The distance between every two of them is either seventy-one, or two, or three, years, and the heaven that is above that one is like that.’ Until he enumerated Seven heavens like that. Then he said: ‘Above the seventh heaven is a sea, Between its highest part and its lowest is just as there is between one heaven to another heaven. Then above their backs is the Throne. Between its lowest and highest parts is the same as what is between one heaven to another heaven, and Allah is above that.’”
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 47, Hadith 372
Malik related to me from Nafi from Sulayman ibn Yasar that Habbar
ibn al-Aswad arrived on the day of sacrifice while Umar ibn al-Khattab
was sacrificing his animal and said, "Amir al-muminin, we made a
mistake in our reckoning and we thought that today was the day of
Arafa." Umar said, "Go to Makka, you and whoever else is with you, and
do tawaf and sacrifice your animal if you have one with you. Then
shave or cut your hair and return home. Then, in another year, do hajj
and sacrifice an animal, and if you cannot find one, fast three days
on hajj and seven when you return home."
Malik said, "Someone
who intends to do hajj and umra together and then misses the hajj must
do hajj again in another year, doing hajj with umra, and offer two
sacrificial animals, one for doing the hajj with umra, and one for the
hajj that he has missed."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 166
We migrated with the Prophet (ﷺ) for Allah's Cause, so our reward became due with Allah. Some of us
passed away (i.e. died) without enjoying anything from their reward, and one of them was Mus`ab bin
`Umar who was killed (i.e. martyred) on the day of Uhud. He did not leave behind except a sheet of
striped woolen cloth. If we covered his head with it, his feet became naked, and if we covered his feet
with it, his head became naked. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to us, "Cover his head with it and put Idhkhir (i.e. a
kind of grass) over his feet," or said, "Put some Idhkhir over his feet." But some of us have got their
fruits ripened, and they are collecting them.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 64, Hadith 126