food is bought; he then feeds each needy person one mudd, or fasts one day in place of every mudd. Where no equivalent animal exists, he must choose between feeding the poor and fasting.

With regard to the sacrificial blood for tamattuʿ and qirān, an offering is obligatory; if he cannot provide it, he must fast three days—preferably ending on the Day of ʿArafah—and seven more when he returns to his family. A pilgrim who is prevented (muḥṣar) and lacks an animal to sacrifice fasts ten days and then releases himself from iḥrām.

An act of vaginal intercourse during Hajj requires the sacrifice of a camel, and during ʿumrah a sheep; if the wife willingly participates, the obligation falls on both of them.¹

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If someone repeats the same category of prohibition and has not yet offered its fidyah, one fidyah suffices—unlike in hunting. Whoever kills game of different species must offer a separate fidyah for each instance, whether or not he has abandoned his iḥrām.

The fidyah is waived, in cases of forgetfulness, for wearing stitched garments, applying perfume, or covering the head; it is not waived for intercourse, hunting, trimming the nails, or shaving.

Every sacrificial offering or food compensation is to be distributed to the needy of the Sacred Precinct; the same applies to the fidyah for physical harm, for wearing clothing, and similar cases, as well as to the offering required when one is prevented, whenever its cause arises. Fasting may be performed anywhere, while the required blood-sacrifice can be fulfilled with one sheep or one-seventh of a camel, and a cow may stand in place of a camel.