Performing the 'Aqiqah Before the Seventh Day
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is the ruling on performing the 'aqiqah before the seventh day, and is the one who does so in contradiction to the Sunnah?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it, but it is better that it be on the seventh day or the twenty-first day; that is what is better. As for doing it on any day after the birth of the child, there is nothing wrong with that; it suffices as an 'aqiqah.
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is the ruling on performing the 'aqiqah before the seventh day, and is the one who does so in contradiction to the Sunnah?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it, but it is better that it be on the seventh day or the twenty-first day; that is what is better. As for doing it on any day after the birth of the child, there is nothing wrong with that; it suffices as an 'aqiqah.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، اللقاء الأسبوعي-06 من 32-لفضيلة الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان -حفظه الله- مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:02:45)
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