In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate
"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"
Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with
Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah
guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one
can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness
that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah
As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu
What should be Avoided by the one
who wants to offer a Sacrifice
Shaykh Abd al-Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
If anyone wants to offer a sacrifice, and the month of Dhul-Hijjah has begun,
either because the new moon has been sighted or because thirty days of
Dhul-Qadah have passed, then it is haraam for him to remove anything of his
hair or nails or skin until he has slaughtered the sacrifice, because of the
hadeeth of Umm Salamah (may Allaah be pleased with her), according to which the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: When you see the new
moon of Dhul-Hijjah according to another version, When the ten days (of
Dhul-Hijjah) begin and any one of you wants to offer a sacrifice, let him
refrain (from cutting) his hair and nails. Narrated by Ahmad and Muslim.
According to another version, Let him not remove anything from his hair and
nails until he has offered the sacrifice. And according to yet another
version, He should not touch his hair or skin.
If he forms the intention to offer the sacrifice during the first ten days of
Dhul-Hijjah, then he should refrain from that from the moment he forms that
intention, and there is no sin on him for anything he may have done before
forming the intention.
The reason for this prohibition is that when the person who wants to offer the
sacrifice joins the pilgrims in some of the rituals of Hajj namely drawing
closer to Allaah by slaughtering the sacrifice he also joins him in some of
the features of ihraam, namely refraining from cutting his hair etc.
This ruling applies only to the one who is going to slaughter the sacrifice.
It does not apply to the one on whose behalf a sacrifice is offered, because
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, If any one of
you wants to offer a sacrifice. He did not say,
is going to have a
sacrifice offered on his behalf. And the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) used to offer the sacrifice on behalf of the members of his
household, and it is not narrated that he told them to refrain from that
(cutting their hair and nails etc).
Based on this, it is permissible for the family of the person who is going to
offer the sacrifice to remove things from their hair, nails and skin during the
first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah.
If the person who wants to offer the sacrifice does remove anything from his
hair, nails or skin then he has to repent to Allaah and not do it again, but he
does not have to offer any expiation, and that does not prevent him from
offering the sacrifice as some of the common people think. If he does any of
those things out of forgetfulness or ignorance, or some hair falls
unintentionally, then there is no sin on him. If he needs to remove it then he
may do so, and there is no blame on him, such as if a nail breaks and it annoys
him, so he cuts it, or if a hair gets in his eye and he removes it, or he needs
to cut his hair in order to treat a wound and the like.
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