– Ibn Manṣūr asked him: “Two fat sacrificial camels for nine, or one camel for ten?” He replied, “The two appeal to me more.” Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn, however, preferred the single fat camel (1). ⦗al-Inṣāf 4/74⦘.
– Concerning the hatmāʾ—an animal from which some teeth have fallen—there are two opinions in the Ḥanbalī school. The sounder view is that it is valid (2). As for an animal that has no teeth at all in its upper jaw, it is valid by unanimous agreement. ⦗Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 26/308; al-Furūʿ 6/88; Ikhtiyārāt al-Baʿlī p. 178⦘.
– In Mecca no ʾuḍḥiyah is offered; there the act is hady alone. ⦗Ikhtiyārāt al-Baʿlī p. 178⦘.
– When performing the ʾuḍḥiyah one faces the qiblah, lays the animal on its left side, places the right foot on its neck, and says, “In the name of Allah; Allah is the Greatest. O Allah, accept this from me just as You accepted from Abraham, Your close friend.” As he slaughters he recites:
“I have turned my face toward Him who created the heavens and the earth, upright, and I am not of the polytheists.
Say: ‘Indeed my prayer, my sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds;
He has no partner. This is what I have been commanded, and I am the first of those who submit.’”
He then gives one-third of the meat in charity and presents another third as a gift. If he eats most of it, gives most of it away, eats it after cooking it, or invites people to partake of it, all of that is permissible.