57 – Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Saʿdī narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us; Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh narrated, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, from Ḥabībah bint Maysarah ibn Khuthaym, from Umm Kuraz al-Khuzaʿiyyah, that she asked the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—about the ʿaqīqah (the newborn’s sacrificial offering). He said, “For a boy, two sheep that are mukāfiʾatān, and for a girl, one sheep.”

Yazīd added: “I asked, ‘Abū Arṭāh, what does mukāfiʾatān mean?’ He replied, ‘Two of equal quality.’”