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Bukhari Volumn 007, Book 066,
Hadith Number 378.
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Narated By Asma' bint Abu
Bakr : I conceived 'Abdullah bin
AzZubair at Mecca and went
out (of Mecca) while I was
about to give birth. I came to
Medina and encamped at Quba',
and gave birth at Quba'. Then I
brought the child to Allah's
Apostle and placed it (on his
lap). He asked for a date,
chewed it, and put his saliva in
the mouth of the child. So the
first thing to enter its stomach
was the saliva of Allah's Apostle.
Then he did its Tahnik with a
date, and invoked Allah to bless
him. It was the first child born
in the Islamic era, therefore
they (Muslims) were very happy
with its birth, for it had been
said to them that the Jews had
bewitched them, and so they
would not produce any
offspring.
Bukhari Volumn 007, Book 066,
Hadith Number 380.
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Narated By Salman bin 'Amir Ad-
Dabbi : I heard Allah's Apostle
saying, "'Aqiqa is to be offered
for a (newly born) boy, so
slaughter (an animal) for him,
and relieve him of his
suffering." (Note: It has been
quoted in Fateh-AL-Bari that
the majority of the Religious
Scholars agrees to the Hadith
narrated in Sahih At-Tirmidi
that the Prophet was asked
about Aqiqa and he ordered 2
sheep for a boy and one sheep
for a girl and that is his
tradition "SUNNA".)
AbuDawud Book 009, Hadith
Number 2828.
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Narated By Umm Kurz al-
Ka'biyyah : I heard the Apostle
of Allah (pbuh) say: Two
resembling sheep are to be
sacrificed for a boy and one for
a girl.
AbuDawud Book 009, Hadith
Number 2833.
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Narated By Samurah b. Jundub :
The Apostle of Allah (pbuh) said:
Along with a boy there is an
'aqiqah, so shed blood on his
behalf, and remove injury from
him.
AbuDawud Book 009, Hadith
Number 2834.
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Narated By Al-Hasan : To
remove the injury is the
shaving of the head.
AbuDawud Book 009, Hadith
Number 2837.
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Narated By Buraydah ibn al-
Hasib : When a boy was born to
one of us in the pre-Islamic
period, we sacrificed a sheep
and smeared his head with its
blood; but when Allah brought
Islam, we sacrificed a sheep,
shaved his head and smeared
his head with saffron.
Muwatta Book 026, Hadith
Number 003.
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Yahya related to me from Malik
from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-
Rahman that Muhammad ibn Ali
ibn al-Husayn said, "Fatima, the
daughter of the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, weighed the
hair of Hasan and Husayn, and
gave away in sadaqa the
equivalent weight in silver."
Muwatta Book 026, Hadith
Number 007.
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Yahya related to me from Malik
from Hisham ibn Urwa that his
father, Urwa ibn az-Zubayr
made an aqiqa for his male and
female children of a sheep each.
Malik said, "What we do about
the aqiqa is that if someone
makes an aqiqa for his children,
he gives a sheep for both male
and female. The aqiqa is not
obligatory but it is desirable to
do it, and people continue to
come to us about it. If someone
makes an aqiqa for his children,
the same rules apply as with all
sacrificial animals... one-eyed,
emaciated, injured, or sick
animals must not be used, and
neither the meat or the skin is
to be sold. The bones are
broken and the family eat the
meat and give some of it away
as sadaqa. The child is not
smeared with any of the blood."
The meat should be eaten by
the family, distributed to the
poor and amongst the relatives.