and, after exchanging views, the Council, by majority vote, decided to issue a ruling that clarifies the verdict on transporting the meat outside the Sacred Precinct, for the previous resolution dealt only with the meat that remains inside it. On this basis, what a pilgrim slaughters falls into three categories:
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The sacrificial offering for tamattuʿ or qirān. It is permissible to move part of this meat outside the Ḥaram. The Companions—may Allah be pleased with them—used to carry some of their sacrificial meat to Madinah. Al-Bukhārī records from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah that he said, “We would not eat from the meat of our sacrificial camels for more than three days at Mina, but the Prophet ﷺ granted us permission, saying, ‘Eat and take provisions,’ so we ate and took some with us.”
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Whatever the pilgrim slaughters inside the Ḥaram as compensation for hunting, as fidya for removing harm, for committing a prohibited act, or for abandoning an obligatory rite. None of this may be transported, because it is entirely for the needy residents of the Ḥaram.
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Whatever is slaughtered outside the Ḥaram—whether as expiation for hunting, the offering of one who is prevented from completing the rites, or any other offering that may lawfully be slaughtered outside the Ḥaram—should be distributed where it is slaughtered, yet there is no objection to moving it from that place to another.
Council of Senior Scholars