Some camps collect money from pilgrims and buy sacrificial animals, then give away half of them in charity and the pilgrims of the camp eat the other half. What is the ruling?
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The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
May Allah preserve you, O Shaykh: In some Hajj camps, money is collected from pilgrims to slaughter the blood of tamattu' and qiran on their behalf. For example, if they take the value of one hundred animals from one hundred pilgrims for slaughter, they go and slaughter the hundred and distribute about fifty sheep completely, meaning without any of it being eaten, and they take the remaining fifty to the camp, where they are slaughtered and eaten there. So we do not know what the ruling is?
The Shaykh : This is a mistake, and this action is not permissible for them, because the fifty that they brought to the camp did not fulfill the obligatory feeding of the poor. This is a point that should be pointed out, because the matter, as you mentioned, is that they say, "We are now giving charity with the fifty, which is easier, and we bring fifty complete to the camp to be eaten." But it is said that the obligation is to take, for example, a hand or a leg, give it in charity, and take the rest to your tents. As for giving away half of it completely and not giving away anything from the other half, this is not permissible. So the campaigns must be warned about this.
The questioner : O Shaykh, is there an expiation for whoever did this?
The Shaykh : There is nothing except that, according to the words of the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them), they say: He must guarantee the minimum amount of meat that falls on each sheep. That is, for example, he buys, say, fifty kilograms and gives it in charity to the poor there in Mecca, of the same type as the sheep, if it was a sheep.
The questioner : O Shaykh, what is your opinion?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : He put it for me, he is good.
May Allah preserve you, O Shaykh: In some Hajj camps, money is collected from pilgrims to slaughter the blood of tamattu' and qiran on their behalf. For example, if they take the value of one hundred animals from one hundred pilgrims for slaughter, they go and slaughter the hundred and distribute about fifty sheep completely, meaning without any of it being eaten, and they take the remaining fifty to the camp, where they are slaughtered and eaten there. So we do not know what the ruling is?
The Shaykh : This is a mistake, and this action is not permissible for them, because the fifty that they brought to the camp did not fulfill the obligatory feeding of the poor. This is a point that should be pointed out, because the matter, as you mentioned, is that they say, "We are now giving charity with the fifty, which is easier, and we bring fifty complete to the camp to be eaten." But it is said that the obligation is to take, for example, a hand or a leg, give it in charity, and take the rest to your tents. As for giving away half of it completely and not giving away anything from the other half, this is not permissible. So the campaigns must be warned about this.
The questioner : O Shaykh, is there an expiation for whoever did this?
The Shaykh : There is nothing except that, according to the words of the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them), they say: He must guarantee the minimum amount of meat that falls on each sheep. That is, for example, he buys, say, fifty kilograms and gives it in charity to the poor there in Mecca, of the same type as the sheep, if it was a sheep.
The questioner : O Shaykh, what is your opinion?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : He put it for me, he is good.