On the authority of Nubayshah, who said: A man called out to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, we used to offer the ʿatīrah sacrifice in the pre-Islamic period during Rajab, so what do you command us?" He said: "Slaughter for Allah, Glorified and Exalted, in whatever month it may be, and do good for Allah, and feed [others]." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, we used to offer the farʿ sacrifice in the pre-Islamic period, so what do you command us?" He said: "For every flock of grazing livestock there is a farʿ which your animals feed until, when it is strong enough to carry a load, you slaughter it and give its meat in charity" — I think he said: "upon the wayfarer — for that is better."

3168 — Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us, they said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab.

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Khalid al-Ḥadhāʾ — who is Ibn Mihrān — narrated it from Abū Qilābah ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-Jarmī, from Abū al-Malīḥ — who is Ibn Usāmah ibn ʿUmayr — then Khalid met Abū al-Malīḥ and heard it from him.
Al-Nasāʾī recorded it in 7/170–171 via the route of Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, with this chain.
Abū Dāwūd (2830) and al-Nasāʾī 7/169–170 recorded it via the route of Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, and al-Nasāʾī 7/170 via the route of Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, and 7/171 via the route of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah — all three from Khalid al-Ḥadhāʾ, with it. Bishr said according to al-Nasāʾī: from Khalid, and sometimes he said: from Abū al-Malīḥ — and sometimes he mentioned Abū Qilābah — from Nubayshah. Shuʿbah said in his narration: from Khalid, from Abū Qilābah, from Abū al-Malīḥ — and I think I heard it from Abū al-Malīḥ. Ibn ʿUlayyah said: from Khalid, from Abū Qilābah, from Abū al-Malīḥ, then I met Abū al-Malīḥ and asked him…
Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it in abbreviated form with the story of the ʿatīrah in 7/169 via the route of Jamil — who is unknown — from Abū al-Malīḥ, with it.
It is in the Musnad of Aḥmad (20723).
The explanation of the farʿah and the ʿatīrah will follow in the next hadith.