What is the ruling on slaughtering animals for the sake of success or deliverance from an accident?

Question:
What is the ruling on slaughtering animals on the occasion of success, or on the occasion of being delivered from an accident, when they say that it wards off evil?

Answer:
If he does this as thanks to Allah and gives it to the poor, or gathers his relatives around it, there is nothing wrong with it, if Allah wills. If he slaughters an animal because of his success and gathers his colleagues, or because of a renovation—he built a house—and calls his relatives, gathering his relatives and neighbors for it, and slaughters for them as thanks to Allah for what He has bestowed upon him, or something similar, there is nothing wrong with this. This is a matter of thanking Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He), and it is not an innovation.
Likewise, if he returns from a journey and gathers his relatives and slaughters for them, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to slaughter some of the animals when he returned from a journey and gather whom Allah willed, and they would eat, (peace and blessings be upon him).