Questions about some of the rulings of the 'Aqiqah?

The Shaykh: Fourteen or twenty-one, is there room for all these days? I don't think so!

The questioner: ... How old is he?

Another questioner : I do not know.

The questioner : How old are they?

Another questioner: I don't know, this is the father.

The Shaykh: The father doesn't know?

Another questioner: He arrived before Maghrib.

The questioner : ... .
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The Shaykh: Did I tell him and he didn't respond?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: He didn't respond.

The questioner: No, no, he does respond, by Allah...

The Shaykh: ... May Allah reward you with good.

Another questioner: Twenty-two or twenty-three...

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner: Twenty-three, in Dhul Qa'dah...

The Shaykh: Yes, so the time passed and he was excused, so perhaps Allah will accept his excuse. But if he was not excused, then it is the meat of a sheep that he offers to his family!

The questioner: Subhan Allah! Is there evidence...?

The Shaykh: Was there no evidence? Is this evidence not sufficient?

The questioner: By Allah; you are holding on to the text...

The Shaykh: And what are you holding on to?!

The questioner: And I am holding on to the text... meaning, on the day that a text came regarding the 'Id al-Adha, whoever slaughtered before the festival, it is meat, right?

The Shaykh: What is the benefit of this?

The questioner: The benefit is that no text came saying that after twenty-one days there is no sheep meat; meaning, it is not...

Another questioner: Meaning, it is apparent, O Shaykh!!

The Shaykh: I am saying from my own opinion, I am not telling you that the Messenger said this.

The questioner: I know that it is from your opinion.

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner: So I want you to support this hadith for me with evidence, may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh: It is not up to you , what does the hadith mean? It is slaughtered for him on his seventh day, obligatorily; is this not the meaning?

Another questioner : It is obligatory.

The Shaykh: So if you left the obligatory, it means you did not fulfill the obligatory, or is it slaughtered after years, no problem?

The questioner: Ah, it seems I understood from Ibn al-Qayyim's words that it means .

The Shaykh: This is another argument, what did you understand from Ibn al-Qayyim?

The questioner: Meaning, if his father did not perform the 'Aqiqah for him, he performs it for himself.

The Shaykh: This is another issue, I am telling you I performed the 'Aqiqah for myself, but does this mean my father fulfilled his obligation? Tell me.

The questioner: It is permissible...

The Shaykh: We are now talking about the father, not about the son slaughtering for himself, we are talking about the father if he slaughters for his son after years; meaning, did he apply the hadith and fulfill the obligation? Of course not, and that is why I said that it is the meat of a sheep that he offers to his family; meaning, this expression, I, as a non-Arab Albanian, derived it from the hadith of the Arab Messenger, it does not mean that I am conveying a ruling to you by way of analogy... no.

The questioner: ... You performed the 'Aqiqah for yourself, is it an 'Aqiqah or not?

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner: When you performed the 'Aqiqah for yourself, is it an 'Aqiqah or not?

The Shaykh: It is an 'Aqiqah, yes.

The questioner: After so many years.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Be patient a little.

The questioner: After so many years; so a fortiori, he should perform it for himself after a month or two or...

The Shaykh: Excuse me, the result... meaning? May Allah forgive you!
I am asking you now; when I slaughtered for myself, is it obligatory upon me?

The questioner: It is not obligatory.

The Shaykh: Think carefully, and the father when he slaughters for his son, is it obligatory upon him?

The questioner : Obligatory.

The Shaykh: So how did you compare what is not obligatory to what is obligatory?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: This is secondly, then why did I perform the 'Aqiqah for myself?

The questioner: Because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the 'Aqiqah for himself.

The Shaykh: Yes, okay, and when did the Messenger perform the 'Aqiqah for himself? Was his age seven days?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh: Okay, so I followed the Messenger (peace be upon him), so both of their rulings are the same, meaning.
The summary: The best of it is in its alternative, if Allah wills, right? It is not permissible to be lenient in slaughtering the 'Aqiqah after the seventh day, so if it does not become easy for him on this day, then on the fourteenth, and if it does not become easy for him, then on the twenty-first; this is the furthest limit. But if we imagine a poor, destitute man who cannot perform the 'Aqiqah... this one is excused, but the day he is able... ... the one who is not excused is not compared to the one who is excused, or the reverse; the one who is excused is not compared to the one who is not excused.
Summary of the speech: This is from the jurisprudential aspect, but from the aspect of...

The questioner: If it is... the son.

Another questioner: The Shaykh wants you.

The Shaykh: So the issue is related to the father and not the son.
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