Mon 13 رمضان 1447 (02 Mar 2026)
[A Man Owed a Blood-Sacrifice in Hajj, Then Bought a Ram and Gave It Away before Slaughtering It]
Mufti:
Alsayyed Muhammad b. Abdallah Awad Al-Muayyady
Fatwa number: 18145
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[A Man Owed a Blood-Sacrifice in Hajj, Then Bought a Ram and Gave It Away before Slaughtering It]
Fatwa number: 18145
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Question: A man owed a dam in Hajj. He bought a ram and gave it to a poor person before slaughtering it, being ignorant that giving the dam to the poor is not valid except after slaughter. He only realized this mistake some time later. What is required of him?
Answer—and from Allah is success: What I incline to is that this suffices for him:
1. Because the Prophet (May Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) excused mistakes in some partial acts of Hajj; and “There is no blame upon you for what you have done by mistake, but [only] for what your hearts intended.” [al-Aḥzāb:5]
2. Ignorance is often a cause of pardon in many legal rulings.
3. The issue is speculative and juristic; error in such matters is pardoned—both for the jurist and the ignorant.
Source: Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.1
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