Azami 7243

Ibn Hibban (5311), Hakim (4/237), and Bayhaqi (9/299–300) all narrated it, all through the route of Abdullah bin Wahb, who said, Muhammad bin Amr told me, from Ibn Jurayj, from Yahya bin Saeed (that is, Ansari), from Amra, from Ayesha. I have mentioned it, and its chain is hasan because of Muhammad bin Amr, who is Yafi, about whom there is disagreement, except that his hadith is hasan when nothing objectionable appears in it. In this hadith he did not narrate it alone from Ibn Jurayj, rather he was corroborated. Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz bin Abu Rawwad and Musa bin Tariq Abu Qurra both corroborated him.Abu Yaala (4521) and Bayhaqi (9/303–304) narrated it through the route of Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz bin Abu Rawwad, from Ibn Jurayj with his chain, from Ayesha, who said, "For a boy, two equivalent sheep are sacrificed as aqiqah, and for a girl, one sheep." Ayesha said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sacrificed two sheep each for Hasan and Husayn on the seventh day, and ordered that the harm be removed from his head." He said, "Slaughter in his name and say, 'In the name of Allah, Allah is greatest, O Allah, this is from You and for You, this is the aqiqah of so-and-so.'" He said, "In pre-Islamic times, they used to take a piece of cotton, put it in the blood of the aqiqah, and then place it on the child's head, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded that they put khaluq (a perfumed substance) in place of the blood."Bayhaqi also narrated it through the route of Abu Qurra, from Ibn Jurayj, and in it, "for Hasan two sheep, and for Husayn two sheep, which he slaughtered on the seventh day and named them." Abu Qurra's name is Musa bin Tariq Zubaydi, the judge, he is trustworthy but has unusual reports.As for the statement in the hadith of Ibn Abu Rawwad, "Slaughter in his name... this is the aqiqah of so-and-so," this is an odd or objectionable addition, narrated uniquely by Abdul-Majid bin Abu Rawwad, about whom there is disagreement, some having deemed him trustworthy while others criticized his memory, so someone like him cannot be relied upon to be the sole narrator of this addition. As for naming Allah and saying the takbir over the sacrificial animal, that has been established as sahih from the hadith of Anas and others, as mentioned earlier in the Book of Slaughtered Animals and the Book of Sacrifices.As for his statement, "In pre-Islamic times..." and so on, this was corroborated by Hajjaj bin Muhammad Masissi Awar, as found in Ibn Hibban (5308), in which Ibn Jurayj explicitly states that he received the report from Yahya bin Saeed, thereby removing any suspicion of concealment (tadlis) on his part. In sum, the hadith of Ayesha, with these corroborations, is sahih, Allah willing, and Hakim and others have declared its chain sahih.On this subject there is also a report from Anas bin Malik, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sacrificed two rams as aqiqah for Hasan and Husayn." Ibn Hibban (5309), Abu Yaala (2945), Bazzar in Kashf Astar (1235), and Bayhaqi (9/99) all narrated it, all through the route of Ibn Wahb, from Jareer bin Hazim, from Qatada, from Anas, who mentioned it. Abu Yaala's version does not contain the words "two rams."Ibn Hibban graded it sahih, as did Abdull-Haq Ishbili in Al-Ahkam Al-Wusta (4/124), and likewise Hafiz Busiri, who attributed it in Mukhtasar Al-Ithaf to Abu Yaala and Bazzar and said, "With a sahih chain." This ruling by them is based on the apparent state of the chain, but it contains a hidden flaw pointed out by Abu Hatim Razi, may Allah have mercy on him, who said, "Jareer made a mistake in this hadith. It is actually Qatada from Ikrima, who said, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sacrificed aqiqah,'" as a mursal report, Al-Ilal (2/50). Bazzar said following the hadith, "We do not know of anyone who corroborated Jareer in this."I say, the scholars have specifically criticized Jareer's narration from Qatada. Athram transmitted from Imam Ahmad that he said, "He used to narrate things from Qatada based on conjecture, attributing to him baseless reports (specific chains for them)," as found in Ibn Rajab's Sharh Al-Ilal (2/509).On this subject there is also what was reported from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet ﷺ sacrificed aqiqah for Hasan and Husayn, two matching, equivalent rams for each of them. Hakim (4/237) narrated it through the route of Sawwar Abu Hamza, from Amr bin Shuayb, who mentioned it. Hakim remained silent about it, but Dhahabi, in his Talkhis, followed up on it by saying, "I say, Sawwar is daif."