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What is the ruling on taking the 'Id sacrifice to the butcher to have it slaughtered and its meat cut?

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The questioner : Shaykh, regarding the 'Id sacrifice, slaughtering the udhiyah; if, for example, I do not want to slaughter the 'Id sacrifice at home... the mess that the sacrifice makes in the house, so I do not want to slaughter it at home. I want to take it to a friend of ours who is a butcher and has a slaughterhouse inside his shop for cutting; and it means a complete set of tools. I took the sacrifice to him, slaughtered it there, cut it up, carried it, and brought it to the house. Is there anything wrong with this? Does anything diminish from the matter, I mean?

The Shaykh : In terms of fulfilling the obligation, there is nothing wrong, but in terms of fulfilling perfection, there is something. And by the way, today we were discussing this matter with "Umm al-Fadl," my wife, and I objected to her with a suggestion like this.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Because today "Abu al-Yasir" surprised me, saying: Will you sacrifice? I said to him: Of course. He said to me: I am for it. I said to him: Why are you a butcher? He said: Yes. I said to him: A butcher is not truly a butcher unless he has the tools. He said to me: They are available. I said to him: Do you have this and that? He said to me: Yes.
The Shaykh : And he brought me a glass... He said to me: I have these.

The questioner : A dog leash.

The Shaykh : Yes... By Allah, I found he had sufficient preparation, the cleaver and what not, and I said to him: Do you blow? He said to me: What? I said to him: Because I know this blowing requires a person to be strong because it is tiring. He said to me: If I told you I have slaughtered more than ten sacrifices, that would be an understatement. I was reassured by his words. I said to him: There is one thing left. He said to me: What is it? I said to him: I want it, we have someone who can slaughter but they will be late for us, and I want it immediately when we return from the prayer place; where are you? He said: I will stay at your place. I said to him: Okay. And I, from the perspective of killing two birds with one stone, said to him: But... He said: What? I said to him: Do you not want to pray at the prayer place? He said: Yes. Perhaps he said: We will prepare it, I have no problem. I said to him: And the children? "Daqar" stopped, and the matter ended there, but I concluded it with a decisive and fair word, and in my opinion, it contains wisdom; I said to him: Then you consult your wife and I will consult my wife.
The Shaykh : The point is =
The Shaykh : -- Did you say salam?Another questioner: Yes.The Shaykh : And upon you be peace. Did anyone answer you?Another questioner : No, no one answered.The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah reward you with good, you should have notified --
The Shaykh : = We came, we wanted to consult her, the important thing is she agreed, of course, that he stay at our place... without, of course, the wife and the children. The following suggestion came up with him; he said: What do you think if we take the sacrifice to his place and in the yard he has, he slaughters it, skins it, and so on, and we bring it to the house. I said to him: No, it must be slaughtered in the house; because the sacrificial animal or the sacrifices are a ritual from the rituals of Islam; so every house must have a sacrifice slaughtered in it. So when it is slaughtered in another place, this is not the ritual of slaughtering... the one from which the sacrifice came out, this is a ritual in another place.
The Shaykh : Of course, this is all in terms of appearance, as for the inner meaning, it is known, and from the perspective that I insist on staying only at our place, "the free man is satisfied with a gesture."

Another questioner : He - Subhan Allah! - the conversation took place between me and Umm 'Abdullah, the conversation took place between me and Umm 'Abdullah that Muhammad 'Abidin's sister said: Abu 'Abdullah is willing to... slaughter for us like last year. So Umm 'Abdullah said: By Allah, there is difficulty because last year about fifteen sacrificial animals took us a long time; even though, I mean, the butcher is a master, but certainly fifteen need time, and they need service, so this year I saw this butcher and he told me that he is willing to slaughter at his place, skin it, cut it, and do these things, so I said to Umm 'Abdullah to tell her sister Umm 'Abidin that we are willing, a day before, to introduce them to this man and they slaughter at his place and do it at his place. She said to me: Why don't you do this? You should do it. I said to her: No, I do not want to do this; so that I bring my sacrificial animal to the house and the children see it and learn this sunnah, and they remain preserving it through the environment.

The Shaykh: All right.

Another questioner : So a conversation happened around the words, I said to her: We will ask the shaykh if it does not have this consideration, we want to transfer it to slaughter there, but if it has this, we want to slaughter at our place; because these, if they are not slaughtered, they are not slaughtered at all, so we will say.

The Shaykh : Yes.

Another questioner : No, this is not the case, but as for us, no; we want to slaughter at our place, so the conversation was around this, that is why I asked you.

The Shaykh : Good; "the shoe fit the foot."

Another questioner : Heh, Subhan Allah al-Azim!
May Allah reward you with good.
Source www.al-albany.com

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