"Or he fasts for one day for every mudd"
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The Shaykh :"Or he fasts for one day for every mudd" An example of this is the pigeon, which is the equivalent of a sheep. The pigeon is the equivalent of a sheep, so the sheep is the compensation for the pigeon, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Ma'idah 5:95] meaning that they are similar.
Between the sheep and the pigeon, the sheep has four legs and the pigeon has two. The sheep has a neck, but the pigeon does not have a neck. They say that the similarity lies in drinking water, the likeness in drinking water. Glory be to Allah, the sheep drinks water in great gulps, and the pigeon drinks it in great gulps. Do you know what it means to drink in gulps? It is like a baby sucking the breast, sucking it once. But the hen, when it fills its beak, raises its head, and it must do so. However, the pigeon, when it puts its beak in the water, does not raise its head until it is satisfied. And so is the sheep. In the case of a pilgrim in the state of ihram who kills a pigeon, we say that you now have the choice: slaughter a sheep and give it in charity to the poor of the Haram, or value the sheep in dirhams and give food in place of the dirhams, or give the dirhams? No, food, because it says "or expiation by feeding the poor." We valued the sheep at two hundred riyals. We valued the food at two hundred sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), each sa' being one riyal. Two hundred sa' is how many mudd (a quarter of a sa')? Eight hundred mudd. We say now, give food amounting to how much? The food is valued at two hundred sa'. If you wish, you may turn away from the food and fast eight hundred days, because feeding is one day for every mudd. Which one will he choose? He will choose either the sheep or the food, because generally, eight hundred days is difficult. But praise be to Allah for the choice in the matter. We say you now have the choice. The evidence is the noble verse:[Al-Ma'idah 5:95] What remains is who determines the equivalent? Allah the Exalted said: [Al-Ma'idah 5:95] So one person is not sufficient; two are necessary. And it will come to us in the next chapter, if Allah wills, that what the Companions ruled upon must be returned to, and what the Companions did not rule upon, two men shall look into the similarity.
the penalty is an equivalent from sacrificial animals to what he killed
فجزاء مثل ما قتل من النعمBetween the sheep and the pigeon, the sheep has four legs and the pigeon has two. The sheep has a neck, but the pigeon does not have a neck. They say that the similarity lies in drinking water, the likeness in drinking water. Glory be to Allah, the sheep drinks water in great gulps, and the pigeon drinks it in great gulps. Do you know what it means to drink in gulps? It is like a baby sucking the breast, sucking it once. But the hen, when it fills its beak, raises its head, and it must do so. However, the pigeon, when it puts its beak in the water, does not raise its head until it is satisfied. And so is the sheep. In the case of a pilgrim in the state of ihram who kills a pigeon, we say that you now have the choice: slaughter a sheep and give it in charity to the poor of the Haram, or value the sheep in dirhams and give food in place of the dirhams, or give the dirhams? No, food, because it says "or expiation by feeding the poor." We valued the sheep at two hundred riyals. We valued the food at two hundred sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), each sa' being one riyal. Two hundred sa' is how many mudd (a quarter of a sa')? Eight hundred mudd. We say now, give food amounting to how much? The food is valued at two hundred sa'. If you wish, you may turn away from the food and fast eight hundred days, because feeding is one day for every mudd. Which one will he choose? He will choose either the sheep or the food, because generally, eight hundred days is difficult. But praise be to Allah for the choice in the matter. We say you now have the choice. The evidence is the noble verse: