1174 – Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “The Prophet ﷺ used to sacrifice two white-speckled, horned rams; he would pronounce the name of Allah, say the takbīr, and place his foot on the sides of their necks.” In another wording: “He slaughtered them with his own hand.” Agreed upon (1). One version has: “two fat rams,” while Abū ʿAwana, in his Ṣaḥīḥ, records: “two valuable ones,” with a thāʾ instead of a sīn (2). Muslim also relates a wording in which he would say, “In the name of Allah; Allah is the Greatest.”

Muslim likewise narrates from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her): “He ordered that a horned ram be brought, one that walked in black, knelt in black, and looked in black. When it was brought for him to sacrifice, he said to her, ‘ʿĀʾishah, hand me the knife.’ Then he said, ‘Sharpen it on a stone,’ and she did so. He took it, laid the ram on its side, slaughtered it, and said: ‘In the name of Allah. O Allah, accept this from Muhammad, the family of Muhammad, and the community of Muhammad.’” (3)

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Glossary of the ḥadith:
• yuḍaḥḥī: uḍḥiyah (festive sacrifice); plural aḍāḥī. Another form is ḍaḥiyyah (pl. ḍaḥāyā), and some Arabs say diḥiyyah with a kasrah on the ḍād.
• kabshayni: dual of kabsh—a male sheep (ram) of any age—with a fatḥah on the kāf, a sukūn on the bāʾ, and a dotted shīn at the end; its plurals are akbush and kibāsh.