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Only sheep, goats, camels and cattle can be sacrificed. Kotos also belongs to the family of cattle. Poultry and wild animals, such as roosters, chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, may not be slaughtered for sacrificial purposes.
The sacrificial sheep and goats must be one year old, the camel five years old, and the cattle two years old. Only when a sheep is six months old, if it looks like it is one year old, and if it is strong and stocky, can it be slaughtered as a sacrifice. Animals other than sheep, no matter how large, may not be sacrificed until they have reached a certain age.
What requirements must a sacrificial animal meet?
Disadvantages that prevent an animal from being sacrificed are:
1. If the disease of the animal is obvious;
2. If it is too thin;
3. If two or one eye is blind;
4. If there is a cripple who cannot go to the place of sacrifice;
5. If most of the teeth are lost;
6. More than half of the ear or tail is cut or severed;
7. If one or both branches are cut at the base;
8. If the ends of one of the sheep and two of the cattle are severed;
9. If the animal is not born with a tail or ears;
10. If the nose is cut;
11. Only if he ate garbage;
12. If most of the tongue is cut off.
Do you know?
* Sacrifice is obligatory for a Muslim who is free, has reached the age of majority, is sane, stable, and has the means of zakat.
* According to the Hanafi Madhhab, it is not obligatory to offer sacrifices to a stranger.
* The time of sacrifice begins at dawn on the day of Eid and leaves at sunset on the third day of Eid. Sacrifice begins only after the Eid prayer.
* If the sacrificial animal escapes and is replaced by another, then if the former is found, both are slaughtered.
Prepared on the basis of materials from the sites Islam.uz, muslim.uz.