On the authority of al-Barā’ ibn ʿĀzib, who said: An uncle of mine — called Abū Burdah — sacrificed [his animal] before the prayer, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to him: “Your sheep is [merely] a sheep of meat.” He said: “O Messenger of Allah, I have a young she-goat, a jadhaʿah among goats.” He said: “Slaughter it, but it will not suffice for anyone other than you.” (1)

6 — Chapter: What is Disliked in Sacrificial Animals

2802 — Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Namarī narrated to us, Shuʿbah narrated to us, on the authority of Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, on the authority of ʿUbayd ibn Fayrūz, who said:
I asked al-Barā’ ibn ʿĀzib: “What is not permissible in sacrificial animals?” He said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, stood among us — and my fingers are shorter than his fingers, and my fingertips are shorter than his fingertips — and said: ‘Four [types] are not permissible in sacrificial animals: the one-eyed whose blindness is evident, the sick whose illness is evident, the lame whose lameness is evident, and the broken [one] that has no marrow.’” He said: I said: “I dislike that there be any deficiency in the age [of the animal].” He said: “What you dislike, leave it, but do not forbid it to anyone.” (2)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. ʿĀmir: he is Ibn Sharāḥīl al-Shaʿbī, and Muṭarrif: he is Ibn Ṭarīf al-Ḥārithī, and Khālid: he is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī, and Musaddad: he is Ibn Musarhad.
It was also narrated by al-Bukhārī (5556) and Muslim (1961) via the chain of Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī, with this chain of transmission.
And see what precedes it.

(2) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: he is Ibn ʿĪsā al-Miṣrī, and Shuʿbah: he is Ibn al-Ḥajjāj, and Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Namarī: he is Ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Sakhbarah al-Ḥawḍī. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “How excellent is the ḥadīth of Sulaymān from al-Barā’ concerning sacrificial animals.”
It was also narrated by Ibn Mājah (3144), al-Tirmidhī (1571) and (1572), and al-Nasā’ī (4369), (4370), and (4371) via the chain of Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, with it. Al-Tirmidhī said: A ḥadīth =