ذو الحجة‎ Reminder for those performing أضحية Udhiyyah (Animal Sacrifice)

[Shahid Munir]

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

As-salāmu 'alaikum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh,

I pray you are well and in strength of īmān, may Allāh preserve you upon the truth.

Those of you, as head of the household, intending to perform  أضحية Udhiyyah (Animal Sacrifice) [Qurbani] this year need to be aware that today is the:

30th day of the Islamic Month of ذو القعدة Dhul Qa'dah 1438AH corresponding to 22nd October 2017CE.

Today could be the last opportunity to trim your hair and nails before sunset at Maghrib time.

This is in-line with the following hadeeth:

Umm Salama [ رﺿﻲ اﷲ ﻋﻨﻬﺎ , May Allaah be pleased with her ] reported (these words) directly from Allaah's Messenger [ صلى الله عليه و سلم  ,  may Allah exalt his mention and render him and his message safe from every derogatory thing]: "If anyone has in his possession a sacrificial animal to offer as a sacrifice (on 'Id al-Adha), he should not get his hair cut and nails trimmed after he has entered the first days of Dhu'l Hijja."

Recorded in 'The Book of Sacrifices' in Saheeh Muslim.

و عليكم السلام والرحمة الله وبركاته

Wa'laikum Salaam wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh,

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[Additional Notes:

Shaykh Al-Albaani [ رحمه الله , rahimahullah, May Allah have Mercy on him ], comments:

“I say: And the apparent meaning of the hadeeth is the obligation to leave removing the hair and the nails for the one who has resolved to do the sacrifice until he sacrifices … and this is what Imaam Ahmad and other than him have said.

So, let those who are afflicted with the shaving of the beard pay attention to this, for indeed shaving it (the beard) for ‘Eed has in it three acts of disobedience:

The First: The shaving in of itself, for indeed it is to become feminine and to resemble the disbelievers and to change the creation of Allah as I have explained it in my book Adaab-uz-Zifaaf Fis-Sunnatil-Mutahharah (6th Edition, page 118).

The Second: Beautifying (oneself) for the ‘Eed through the disobedience of Allah!

The Third: What this hadeeth has benefitted with from the forbidding of taking (from) the hair for the one who wants to sacrifice. And in reality, very few are those who are saved from these violations (of the religion), even some of the people of knowledge! We ask Allah for safety.”

Recorded in Salaatul-‘Eedayn Fil-Musallah Heeyah As-Sunnah, Pp 40-41, 3rd Edition, 1406/1986, Al-Maktab-Al-Islaamee, Beirut .

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