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Hadith 34642
Yahya related to me from Malik from Jafar ibn Muhammad from his
father that Ali ibn Abi Talib used to say, "The least difficult thing
acceptable as a sacrificial animal is a sheep."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 170
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard Rabia ibn Abi
Abd ar-Rahman saying the same about that as what Ikrama related from
Ibn Abbas.
Malik said, "That is what I like most out of what
I have heard about the matter."
Malik was asked about a man
who forgot the tawaf al-ifada until he had left Makka and returned to
his community and he said, "I think that he should go back and do the
tawaf al-ifada, as long as he has not had sexual relations with women.
If, however, he has had sexual relations with women, then he should
not only return and do the tawaf al-ifada, but he should also do an
umra and sacrifice an animal. He should not buy theanimal in Makka and
sacrifice it there, but if he has not brought one with him from
wherever it was he set out to do umra, he should buy one in Makka and
then take it outside the limits of the Haram and drive it from there
to Makka and sacrifice it there." Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 169
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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