Muwatta 1448

A saying of Malik: the practice among us about the aqiqa is that whoever performs it sacrifices one sheep for his child, males and females. The aqiqa is not obligatory, but it is recommended to practise it, and it is among the matters people have always held. Whoever performs it for his child does so as he would a sacrifice of the pilgrimage, so no one-eyed, emaciated, broken or sick animal is lawful, nothing of its meat or hide is sold, its bones are broken, the household eats from its meat and gives charity from it, and nothing of its blood touches the child. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of the Aqiqa. Source: the Muwatta. Built on in the chapters on the aqiqa and slaughtering.