Al-Kafi 10494

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Amro Bin Saeed, from Musaddaq Bin Sadaqa, from Ammar Bin Musa, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘I asked him^asws about the <span class="iTxt">Aqeeqa</span> from the new-born, how it is (to be done)?’ He^asws said: ‘When seven days come upon the new-born, name by the name Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic has Named it by, then shave off his head, and give in charity by the weight of his hair, gold or silver, and slaughter a ram from him, and a ram cannot be found, suffice it with whatever it is sufficed by during the slaughtering, or else bear a lamb what happens to be the best of the lambs a year old, and give the midwife a quarter; and if there does not happen to be a midwife, so it is up to its mother to give to whomsoever she so desires to, and feed from it ten from the Muslims. So it you can increase, so it is better; and eat from it. And the <span class="iTxt">Aqeeqa</span> is necessary whether one is rich or poor, when it is easier, even if one has not performed <span class="iTxt">Aqeeqa</span> from it, even of a sacrifice from it, so the slaughter would suffice for it’. And he^asws said: ‘If the mid-wife was a Jewess, not eating from the slaughter of the Muslims, give to her the price of a quarter of the ram’.

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