It was said to him: "This is al-Husayn," signaling to his head. He called for a sacrificial camel (jazur) and slaughtered it, then he shaved him while at al-Suqya. This was narrated by Abu Ishaq al-Juzajani. It is also because this is an expiation (kaffarah), so it is permissible to perform it before the obligation falls due, just like the expiation for zihar and oaths.

679 - Issue: He said: "And the same applies to the nails."

Ibn al-Mundhir said: "The people of knowledge have reached a consensus that the pilgrim in ihram is prohibited from removing his nails, and if he removes them, he owes a Fidyah according to the opinion of the majority of them." This is the opinion of Hammad, Malik, al-Shafi'i, Abu Thawr, and the Ashab al-Ra'y. It has been narrated from 'Ata'. Another opinion from him is that there is no Fidyah upon him, because the Shari'ah has not specified a Fidyah for it. Our position is that he has removed that which was prohibited to be removed for the sake of comfort, so the Fidyah is obligatory upon him, just like shaving the hair. The lack of an explicit text does not prevent it from being analogized to it, just like body hair is analogized to head hair. The ruling regarding the Fidyah for nails is exactly the same as the ruling for the Fidyah for hair; for four of them, there is a blood sacrifice, and another report states that for three of them there is a blood sacrifice. For a single nail, there is a mudd of food, and for two nails, there are two mudds, according to the details and differences we have mentioned. The opinion of al-Shafi'i and Abu Thawr is the same. Abu Hanifah said: "A blood sacrifice is not obligatory unless one clips the nails of an entire hand, such that if he clips four from each hand, no blood sacrifice is obligatory upon him; because he has not completed the utility of the hand, resembling the case of one nail or two nails." Our position is that he has clipped that to which the term 'a collective group' applies, resembling the case where he clips five from one hand. What they have said is invalidated by the case where one shaves a quarter of his head, for he has not exhausted the utility of the limb, yet a blood sacrifice is still required. Their argument leads to the requirement of a blood sacrifice for a small amount and not for a large amount. Once this is established, whoever clips his nails and thereby incurs a blood sacrifice is given a choice between the three things, as we said regarding hair, because...