What is preferable in distributing the 'aqiqah or holding a feast with it
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: What is preferable regarding the 'aqiqah: that it be divided into three parts, or that a feast be held with it and his relatives and neighbors be invited?
Answer:
It is all permissible. If he holds a feast with it and invites his neighbors and friends, but he gives charity from it, giving some of it or a portion to the poor, or he distributes it all, or he divides it into three parts, the matter is broad in this regard. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: What is preferable regarding the 'aqiqah: that it be divided into three parts, or that a feast be held with it and his relatives and neighbors be invited?
Answer:
It is all permissible. If he holds a feast with it and invites his neighbors and friends, but he gives charity from it, giving some of it or a portion to the poor, or he distributes it all, or he divides it into three parts, the matter is broad in this regard. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 29 — youtube.com (58:33)
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