What is the ruling on one who has made it a habit to slaughter animals at the end of Ramadan and give their meat in charity?

Question : This questioner says: A man has made it a habit to slaughter two rams during the last ten days of Ramadan and give them in charity, intending the reward to be for his deceased parents. What is the ruling on that?

Answer : If the one who slaughters the rams in the last ten days of Ramadan believes that there is reward in the slaughter itself, then this is a bid'ah (religious innovation), because if he believes there is reward in the slaughter itself, he has made these days like the days of 'Id al-Adha, where there is reward for slaughtering animals. However, if he slaughters these animals only for the meat, yes, he wants only the meat, then there is nothing wrong with it. That is, there is nothing wrong with a person slaughtering one, two, or three animals according to need to feed the poor and the neighbors around him. The matter requires a distinction: what did he intend by the slaughter? Did he intend that the slaughter here is an act of drawing near to Allah? If so, that is not permissible; rather, it is a bid'ah, because one does not draw near to Allah through slaughter except on 'Id al-Adha, or in the prescribed slaughters such as the 'aqiqah and the hady, and the like.
And as for if he wants only the meat, but instead of buying slaughtered meat, he buys an animal and slaughters it himself and distributes its meat, then there is nothing wrong with that.