1 - Chapter on the Explanation of the ʿAtīrah (sacrifice offered in Rajab)

4228 - Muhammad ibn al-Muthannā informed us, saying: Ibn Abī ʿAdiyy narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAwn, who said: Jamil narrated to us, from Abū al-Malīḥ, from Nubayshah, who said: It was mentioned to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him — he said: "We used to offer the ʿatīrah in the pre-Islamic period." He said: "Slaughter for Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in whatever month it may be, and do good to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and feed (others)."

4229 - ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī informed us, saying: Bishr — and he is Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal — narrated to us, from Khālid, and sometimes he said: from Abū al-Malīḥ, and sometimes he mentioned Abū Qilābah, from Nubayshah, who said: A man called out while he was at Minā, saying: "O Messenger of Allah, we used to offer the ʿatīrah as a sacrifice in the pre-Islamic period during Rajab, so what do you command us, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Slaughter in whatever month it may be, and do good to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and feed (others)." He said: "We used to offer the faraʿ (first-born camel sacrifice)..."

= And Aḥmad (15972) also recorded it from ʿAffān, with this chain of transmission.

(1) In (M): they said.
(2) In (K) and (H): "and do good to Allah," and on their margins is as confirmed.
(3) A sound ḥadīth, but this chain of transmission is weak due to the unknown status of Jamil — who is not attributed to a lineage — for no one narrated from him other than Ibn ʿAwn — and he is ʿAbdullāh, the client of the Muzanīs, the Baṣran — and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" and said: I do not know who he is, nor whose son he is. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Ibn Abī ʿAdiyy: he is Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, and Abū al-Malīḥ: he is Ibn Usāmah al-Hudhalī. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (4540).
And Aḥmad (20726) also recorded it from Ibn Abī ʿAdiyy, with this chain of transmission.
It will follow in extended form in the next four narrations with sound chains of transmission.
Al-Sindī said: His statement: "Slaughter for Allah" means: slaughter if you wish, and make slaughtering in Rajab and other months equal. Thus al-Bayhaqī mentioned it in his "Sunan," intending that the command is for recommendation, not obligation.
(4) In a copy on the margins of (K) and (H): "and do good to Allah."