Is there a specific time for slaughtering the 'aqiqah, and when is the newborn's hair shaved?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Is there a specific time for slaughtering the 'aqiqah, and when is the newborn's hair shaved? May you be rewarded.
The Shaykh : The newborn's hair is shaved on the seventh day if it is a boy. As for a girl, her head is not shaved. If the hair is shaved, one gives charity in silver equal to its weight, as stated in the hadith.
As for the 'aqiqah, it is best to slaughter it on the seventh day. The scholars said: if the seventh day is missed, then on the fourteenth day; if that is missed, then on the twenty-first day; if that is missed, then at any time.
However, there is no blame on one who slaughters the 'aqiqah on the sixth, fifth, tenth, or twelfth day. But these are only preferred times, and they are three: the seventh, the fourteenth, and the twenty-first.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh, and may Allah bless you and your knowledge, and benefit the Muslims through you.
The Shaykh : The newborn's hair is shaved on the seventh day if it is a boy. As for a girl, her head is not shaved. If the hair is shaved, one gives charity in silver equal to its weight, as stated in the hadith.
As for the 'aqiqah, it is best to slaughter it on the seventh day. The scholars said: if the seventh day is missed, then on the fourteenth day; if that is missed, then on the twenty-first day; if that is missed, then at any time.
However, there is no blame on one who slaughters the 'aqiqah on the sixth, fifth, tenth, or twelfth day. But these are only preferred times, and they are three: the seventh, the fourteenth, and the twenty-first.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh, and may Allah bless you and your knowledge, and benefit the Muslims through you.