Which animal did the Prophet of Islam choose for the first sacrifice?

 

Which animal did the Prophet of Islam choose for the first sacrifice?

 

Maulana Qazi Abu Hurairah says, ‘According to th

Muslim scholars say that there are references in several hadiths to which animal the Prophet chose for the first sacrifice and how the sacrifice was performed.e hadith of Bukhari Sharif, Hazrat Anas ibn Malik, the Prophet of Islam went towards two rams and slaughtered them with his own hands.’

‘According to another hadith, Anas ibn Malik said, I saw the Prophet of Islam choosing two rams that had horns and then slaughtered them with his own hands.’

Dr. Abu Saleh of the Islamic Foundation says, ‘The Prophet of Islam used to sacrifice one ram on his behalf and the other ram on behalf of the Ummah.’

He says that the act of sacrifice was performed after offering the Eid prayer.

 

Islamic scholars say that the Prophet of Islam used to perform this duty regularly after the first sacrifice.

Camel Sacrifice

Dr. Abu Saleh of the Islamic Foundation says, ‘According to the hadith of Tirmidhi Sharif, Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Umar said that after the migration, the Prophet of Islam stayed in Medina for ten years and sacrificed for ten years.’

According to Islamic scholars, the Prophet of Islam also sacrificed sheep, goats, camels and cows, however, the common practice was to sacrifice sheep. There is a tradition that the Prophet of Islam considered the sacrifice of a horned sheep to be the best.

Maulana Qazi Abu Hurairah says, ‘The Prophet of Islam always chose fat, fresh, horned, healthy and beautiful animals.’

 

Islamic scholars say that when the Prophet of Islam and his companions went to perform Hajj or Umrah, they took the sacrificial animals with them.

Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, a professor of Islamic history at Dhaka University, says that in 628 CE, when the Prophet Muhammad set out to perform Umrah, he stopped in a tent in Hudaybiyah, where the Treaty of Hudaybiyah was signed, after which he sacrificed a camel.

‘There was another tradition at that time, and that was that animals were marked and released in the direction of Mecca so that it would be clear that they were sacrificial animals.’

Dr. Abu Saleh says that ‘when the Prophet Muhammad performed Hajj after the conquest of Mecca, he also sacrificed.’ He says that the Prophet Muhammad sacrificed a hundred camels then.

Dr. Abu Saleh says that the Prophet Muhammad himself slaughtered 63 of them, while Hazrat Ali slaughtered the rest.

 

According to Islam, the tradition of animal sacrifice began at the beginning of human civilization, in the life of Prophet Adam. However, Islamic scholars say that the tradition of sacrifice that exists in the Islamic world today is related to the history of the sacrifice made by Prophet Abraham.

Prophet Abraham was born in the city of Ar in Iraq about 2100 years before the birth of Prophet Jesus. At that time, there was a dynasty of Nimrod, which is called Nimrod in Arabic.

Muslims believe that on the command of God, Prophet Abraham saw in a dream that he was being instructed by Allah to sacrifice his son for the sake of his Lord, after which he took Prophet Ishmael with him to Arafat in Mecca for the same purpose.

However, Allah accepted the sacrifice of an animal in place of Ishmael, seeing the obedience of Prophet Abraham and the strength of his faith.

On this occasion, Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha all over the world and sacrifice animals, the purpose of which is to thank God.

History shows that the tradition of animal sacrifice existed in the Arab world even before the advent of Islam.

Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, a professor of Islamic History at Dhaka University, says, “At that time, animals were sacrificed to gods and goddesses. And that is why, although the Prophet of Islam was present in Mecca, he did not follow this tradition and did not sacrifice for many years even after the revelation was revealed.”

According to history, the Prophet of Islam sacrificed for the first time after reaching Medina.

When did the Prophet Muhammad first celebrate Eid al-Adha?

In 622 CE, the Prophet Muhammad left Mecca and moved to Medina, which is called the ‘Hijrah’, and the Islamic calendar begins from this year.

According to the companion Anas ibn Malik, after reaching Medina, the Prophet Muhammad learned that the locals celebrate two festivals a year, one of which was Nowruz.

According to Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh, one of these festivals was celebrated in autumn and the other on the arrival of spring.

Professor Atta-ur-Rehman says that ‘the tradition of two major religious and social festivals began among Muslims in connection with these two festivals, the first of which is celebrated on the first day of Shawwal as Eid al-Fitr and the second is Eid al-Adha in Dhu al-Hijjah.’

According to Islamic scholars, Eid al-Adha was first celebrated in the second year of the Hijri calendar

Maulana Qazi Abu Hurayrah is the president of the National Imams Association in Bangladesh. Speaking to BBC Bangla, he said that the Prophet of Islam also sacrificed for the first time then.

Islamic scholars say that the sacrifice by the Prophet of Islam revived the tradition of the sacrifice of Hazrat Ibrahim.

Dr. Abu Saleh of the Islamic Foundation says that ‘many traditions in Islam are associated with the prophets, for example, earlier the prayer was offered in the direction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but later it was offered in the direction of the Kaaba. The case of sacrifice is also similar.’