its eye, the lame animal whose lameness is clear (2), the sick animal whose sickness is clear, the emaciated animal that has no marrow, and the al-adba' (an animal with more than half of its ear or horn missing). It is also disliked to offer an animal that is al-sharqa' (3), al-kharqa', al-muqabala, or al-mudabara. It is recommended to select an animal with sound eyes and ears, just as we mentioned regarding the udhiyah, because it resembles it and is thus measured against it.

1773 - Issue; he said: (Its path regarding eating, gifting, and charity is the same as the path of the [udhiyah], except (1) that it is cooked as whole limbs [ajdalan].)

Al-Shafi'i held this view. Ibn Sirin said: "Do with its meat whatever you wish." Ibn Jurayj said: "It is to be cooked with water and salt, gifted to (2) neighbors and friends, and nothing of it is given in charity." Ahmad was asked about it and he narrated the statement of Ibn Sirin; this indicates that he leaned towards it. He was asked whether one may eat all of it? He said: "I did not say to eat all of it, nor to give nothing of it in charity." The most analogous position is measuring it against the udhiyah, because it is a prescribed sacrifice that is not mandatory, so it resembles the udhiyah. And because it resembles it (3) in its attributes (4), age, quantity, and conditions, it therefore resembles it in its disposal. If one cooks it and invites his brothers to eat it, that is good. It is recommended that its limbs be separated and its bones not broken, due to what was narrated from Aisha that she said: "The Sunnah is two equivalent sheep for the boy, and for the girl one sheep; it is cooked as whole limbs, no bone is broken, and one eats, feeds others, and gives in charity, and that is on the seventh day (5)." Abu Ubayd al-Harawi said regarding the aqiqah (6): "It is cooked as whole limbs, its bone is not broken," meaning limb by limb, and it is...