What is meant by removing harm from the boy mentioned in the hadith (The boy is pledged by his 'aqiqah)? And is the boy here the male or the female or both?

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : I have looked through some of the books of Sunan regarding the 'aqiqah for the boy specifically, which is removing harm from the boy, and I found that removing harm came after the 'aqiqah for the boy, not for the newborn?

The Shaykh : Does it come?

The questioner : After, the saying of the Messenger: Does it restrict removing harm, which is the hair intended, to the boy if it is hair, or is it for the newborn, the boy and the female?

The Shaykh : Both together, it is not restricted to the male to the exclusion of the female.

The questioner : Okay, the occurrence of removing harm after the word boy?

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : Does this mean you have just read it in the narrations about the 'aqiqah in the books of Sunan?

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : I found it came after the boy only!

The Shaykh : That is correct, but here there are two things: one is certain, and it is his saying (peace be upon him) which is considered a rule: , so every ruling that comes in the Shari'ah explicitly stated or related to men, this ruling extends to women as well, except what is excluded, except what is excluded, meaning: if a text explicitly states that women are different from men in that ruling which came specified with the word men, the clearest example of that is the issue of inheritance , as for what is other than that, if we did not say like what the Messenger (peace be upon him) said in this hadith: , we would find ourselves in need of hundreds of proofs to rule with the ruling given to men for women as well, and we do not find such a thing at all except what is very, very rare, and I mentioned to you earlier such a rare example related to inheritance, so if there is a prohibition against shaving the head of the newborn girl as is related, for example, to the woman in ihram, then in that case we say the small newborn girl is excluded from this ruling, the second thing: and this is what I pointed out that I am not currently recalling it, there may be some proofs that are broader than the word boy, meaning the word newborn, the word newborn, if it is, and I say cautiously because I am not recalling it now, if this exists, it is also from what confirms the inferential issue that I pointed out earlier, relying on the rule: .