that he should entrust his ritual slaughter to a Person of the Scripture, for the very act of slaughter is a bodily act of worship, like the prayer itself. Because of this it is tied to specific places, times, and similar conditions, unlike the distribution of the meat, which is a monetary act of worship. For that reason the scholars differed over whether it is obligatory to restrict the meat of the sacrificial offerings slaughtered within the Sacred Precinct to its residents, even though the sounder opinion is that they indeed have priority. Charity, by contrast, is a purely financial act of worship, and so the agent’s intention may not affect it. In any event, a direct text from Aḥmad exists on this issue, and it is open to more than one interpretation.

This concludes the discussion of the animals they slaughter for their festivals.