78 – Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, from Sufyān, from Aslam al-Minqarī, from ʿAṭāʾ—concerning the meat of the ʿaqīqah (post-birth sacrifice)—who said: “It is to be cut into joints.” Abū ʿAbd Allāh explained, “Meaning that no bone is to be broken,” and added, “This is the view I prefer.”