ONE SHOULD OFFER AS SADAQA THE MEAT AND HIDE OF THE SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Chapter# 59, Book 7, Number 3019:
‘All (Allah be pleased with him) reperted: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) put me in charge of his sacrificial animals, that I should give their flesh. skins and saddle cloths as sadaqa, but not to give anything to the butcher, saying: We would pay him ourselves.
Book 7, Number 3020:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abd al-Karim al-Jazari with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 7, Number 3021:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of ‘Ali (Allah be pleased with him) with another chain of transmitters, but there is no mention of the wages of the butcher in it.
Book 7, Number 3022:
Ali b. Abi Talib (Allah be pleased with him) reported: Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) put him in charge of his sacrificial animals, and commanded him to distribute the whole of their meat, hides, and saddle cloths to the poor, and not to give to the butcher anything out of them.
Book 7, Number 3023:
A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Hadrat ‘Ali (Allah be pleased with him).