He said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the aqiqah, and he replied, "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, does not love disobedience," as if he disliked the name itself.They said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, "We are only asking you about one of us who has a child born to him."He said, "Whoever wishes to offer a sacrifice for his child, let him do so. For a boy, two comparable sheep, and for a girl, one sheep."Dawud said, I asked Zayd bin Aslam about "comparable," and he answered, "Two similar sheep slaughtered together."
قال سئل رسول الله ﷺ عن العقيقة فقال: لا يحب الله عزوجل العقوق وكأنه كره الاسم. قال الرسول الله ﷺ: إنما نسألك أحدنا يولد له؟ قال: من أحب أن ينسك عن ولده فلينسك عنه؛ عن الغلام شاتان مكافئتان، وعن الجارية شاة. قال داود: سألت زيد بن أسلم عن المكافأتان؟ قال: الشاتان المشبهتان تذبحان جميعا.
Abu Dawud (2842), Nasai (4212), Imam Ahmad (6713, 6822), and Hakim (4/238) narrated it through various chains from Dawud bin Qays Farraa, from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, and thus he related it. The wording given here is that of Nasai, and it is also recorded by Abu Dawud and Ahmad, where in the first place it includes a question about the firstborn sacrifice and the Rajab sacrifice. Its chain is hasan because of Amr bin Shuayb, for his hadith is hasan. Hakim said, "Its chain is sahih."His statement "two matched ones" means they are equal in age and body, and free of any defects, since they are offered as a means of nearness to Allah. Is it required that they be of mature age, as is required for the udhiya? It appears that this is not required, since it is not mentioned in the text, and whoever required it based this on an analogy with the udhiya, though the first view is more correct.As for what has been narrated from a man of Bani Damra, on his father's authority, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the sacrifice for a newborn and said, "I do not like undutifulness," as though he disliked only the name, and he said, "Whoever has a child born to him and wishes to offer a sacrifice on his child's behalf may do so." This narration contains an unknown man from Bani Damra, but his father appears to have been a companion, so the unknown status does not harm it.Malik narrated it in the chapter on the sacrifice for a newborn (1), from Zayd bin Aslam, from a man of Bani Damra, with this wording. Through Malik's route, Ahmad (23134) and Bayhaqi (9/300) also narrated it, and Bayhaqi then said following it, "This, when joined to the first one (meaning the earlier hadith of Abdullah bin Amr), strengthens it."As for his ﷺ statement, "I do not like undutifulness," scholars have differed over how to understand it. Some said that he disliked only the name, not the legitimacy of the sacrifice for a newborn itself, since undutifulness and the sacrifice for a newborn share the same root meaning of cutting, and this explanation has itself been reported within the hadith.Khattabi said in Maalim Sunan, "His statement, 'Allah does not like undutifulness,' contains no weakening of the matter of the sacrifice for a newborn, nor any negation of its obligatory status. He simply found the name distasteful and preferred that it be called by a better name, so let it be called an offering or a sacrifice."Other views have also been stated, see Tuhfat Mawdud, p. 99.