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Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Urnar
used to say, "The least thing that is acceptable as a sacrificial
animal is a camel or a cow."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 172
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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
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Yahya related to me from Malik fromAbdullah ibn Abi Bakr that a
mawla of Amir bint Abd ar-Rahman called Ruqayya told him that she once
set out with Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman to go to Makka. She said, ''Amra
entered Makka on the eighth of Dhu'l-Hijja, and I was with her. She
did tawaf of the House, and say between Safa and Marwa, and then
entered the back of the mosque. She asked me, 'Do you have a pair of
scissors with you?' and I said, 'No.' She said, 'Then try and find
some for me.' I went and looked for some and brought them back and she
cut some hair from the tresses of her head.Then, on the day of
sacrifice, she slaughtered a sheep." Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 173