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The sparrow

العصفور

'The aqiqa is liked even with a sparrow' — Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi: the smallest of birds can stand in the sacrifice's place with Medina's jurists, a door to the law's gentleness toward the weak.

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Muwatta 1445

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Muwatta, Book of the Aqiqa· Aqiqa (newborn sacrifice)· Muwatta 1445· The birds of the elephant· Anam (livestock: camels, cattle and sheep, and their rulings)· The ant· The apes· Awqas (the gaps between the prescribed amounts of zakat on camels, cattle and sheep, and whether zakat is due on them)

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  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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Muwatta, Book of the Aqiqa

The Book of the Aqiqa, the twelfth and last book of volume 1 of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997): 8 reports (1441–1448) in two babs, PDF pp. 645–647, from the Prophet's word on the aqiqa and Fatima's alms of silver to the Malikite ruling that it is recommended and not obligatory.