We have a driver who went for Hajj with a group, and they told him that everything was on them. When the rituals were completed, they asked him for the value of the sacrificial animal, so some refused on the grounds that he was performing Qiran.

The questioner : He says: We have a driver who went for Hajj with a group, and they told him that everything was on them. When the rituals were completed, they asked him for the value of the sacrificial animal, so some refused on the grounds that he was performing Qiran. The question remains: Is the sacrificial animal obligatory for the one performing Qiran, given that the driver refused to slaughter the sacrificial animal on the grounds that he was performing Qiran, and he returned to his town without slaughtering it? So what is required of him if the sacrificial animal is obligatory upon him?

The Shaykh : Yes, the sacrificial animal is obligatory for the one performing Qiran, just as it is for the one performing Tamattu'. This driver who did not do so must now send money to someone he knows in Makkah to buy a sheep for him and slaughter it there in Makkah, so that he can eat from it and give it in charity.