—specifically its left side—and he should place his right foot on its right flank.¹
99- As for camels, the Sunnah is to pierce them while they are standing, the left fore-leg bound and the rest of their legs bearing their weight,² with their faces turned toward the qiblah.³
100- When he slaughters or pierces he should say: “In the name of Allah; Allah is the Greatest. O Allah, this is from You and for You.⁴ O Allah, accept it from me.⁵”
101- The period for slaughtering lasts four days: the festival day itself—the Day of Sacrifice, which is the Major Pilgrimage day⁶—and the three days of tashrīq, for the Messenger ﷺ said, “All the days of tashrīq are (days for) sacrifice.”⁷
102- He may eat from his offering and even take some of its meat with him back to his homeland, as the Prophet ﷺ did.
(1) Al-Hafiz, 10/16, explains that this posture “makes it easier for the slaughterer to hold the knife in his right hand while gripping the animal’s head with his left.” I add: laying the animal on its side and placing one’s foot on its flank is explicitly recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
(2) Sahih Abi Dawud, no. 1550; immediately afterwards there is a supporting report from Ibn Umar with a similar wording, collected by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
(3) Malik transmits it with an authentic chain as a mawquf report from Ibn Umar, and al-Bukhari cites it definitively in suspended form, no. 330 of the Mukhtasar of al-Bukhari.
(4) Reported by Abu Dawud and others from Jabir; it has a corroborating narration from Abu Sa id al-Khudri transmitted by Abu Ya la, as noted in Majma 4/22, and is also cited in Irwa al-Ghalil, no. 1118.
(5) Narrated by Muslim and others from Aishah, and listed in the previous source. Shaykh al-Islam adds in his Mansik, “just as You accepted it from Ibrahim, Your close friend,” but I have not found this wording in any of the hadith collections available to me.
(6) Bukhari records it in suspended form, while Abu Dawud and others relate it with a connected chain; see Sahih Abi Dawud, nos. 1700–1701.
(7) Reported by Ahmad; Ibn Hibban declared it authentic. Considering all its chains together, I judge it sound, which is why I included it in al-Silsilah al-Sahihah, no. 2476.