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be performed
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B O O K XLIII.
Of U Z H E E A , or S A C R I F I C E .
IT is the duty of every free Mujfulman, arrived at the age of maturity,
to offer a facrifice on the Red Kirb&n, or feftival of' the fa-
crifice * , provided he be then poflefled of a Nifab j “, and be not a traveller.
This is the opinion of Haneefa, Mohammed, Ziffer, andHafan;
and likewife that of Aboo Toofqf, according to one tradition.— According
to another tradition, and alfo in the opinion of Shafe'i, facrifice is
* T h is feftival happens on the tenth o f Zee-hidjct, and was inftitutecl in commemoration
o f Abraham having offered up his fon IJhmael as a facrifice to G od, in confequenCe
o f a vifion he had.— See Sales’ s Koran, V o l. I I . p. 3 12 .
t For the amount of Kijab, fee Vol. I. p. 1, to 27.
not
not an indifpenfable duty, but .only laudable. 1’ahdvee reports that in
the opinion of Haneefa it is indifpenfable; whilfl the two difciples hold
it to be in a Jlrong degree laudable.
T h e offering o f a facrifice is incumbent on a man on account of
himfelf, and on account of his infant child. This is the opinion of
Haneefa in one tradition. In another (which is recorded in the Zahir
Rawayet) he has faid that it is not incumbent on a man to offer a facrifice
for his child.— In fact, according to Haneefa and Aboo Toefaf,
a father or guardian are to offer a facrifice at the expence of the child,
(where he is poflefled o f property,) eating what parts of it are eatable,
and felling the remaining, parts' that are valuable in their fubftance,
fuch as the fkin, &c. Mohammed, Ziffer, and Shafei, have faid that a
father is to facrifice on account of his child at his own expence, and not
at that of the child. ,
T h e facrifice eflablifhed for one perfon is a goat; and that for
feven, a cow or a camel.— I f a cow be facrificed for any number of
people fewer than feven, it is lawful; but it is otherwife i f facrificed
on account o f eight.— If, alfb, in an aflociation of feven people, the
contribution o f any one of them fhould be lefs than a feventh fhare, the
facrifice is not valid on the part of any.
If a camel that is jointly and in an equal degree the property of
two men, fhould be facrificed by them on their own account, it is
lawful, according to the moll authentic traditions:— and in this cafe
they mull divide theflefh by weight, as flefh is an article of weight.
If, on the contrary, they diftribute it from conjectural eftimation, it
is not lawful; unlefs they add to each fhare of the flefh part o f the
head, neck, and joints.
If a perfon purchafe a cow, with an intent to facrifice • it on his
own account, and he afterwards admit fix others to an aflociation with
him
It is incumbent
on a
man, for
himfelf, and
for his infant
children,»
The viffrm
for one perfo*
is a goat; and
for any number
from one
to feven, a
cow or camel.
An animal
held in joint
property may
be jointly offered
in facrifice.
Others may
be admitted
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