that the incident involving the two rams occurred on the day of Eid; he therefore assumed that it had taken place at Minā, and was mistaken.

The second approach is that of Ibn Hazm (1) and those who followed him: these were two distinct acts, reported in two authentic hadiths. Abū Bakra described his offering sacrifices in Mecca, while Anas described his offering sacrifices in Medina. He said: On the Day of Sacrifice, he slaughtered sheep as well as cattle and camels, as ‘Ā’isha said: “That day, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, offered cattle as sacrifices on behalf of his wives.” This is recorded in the two Sahīh collections (2).

Sahīh Muslim (3) records: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, slaughtered a cow on behalf of ‘Ā’isha on the Day of Sacrifice.”

The Sunan collections (4) report that he sacrificed a single cow on behalf of Muhammad’s household during the Farewell Pilgrimage.

His position is that a pilgrim is prescribed to offer an Eid sacrifice in addition to the pilgrimage offering.

The correct view, Allah willing, is the first approach. A pilgrim’s offering serves the same purpose for him as the Eid sacrifice does for a resident. No one has reported that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, or his Companions offered both a pilgrimage offering and an Eid sacrifice. Rather, their pilgrimage offerings were their Eid sacrifices: such a sacrifice is a pilgrimage offering at Minā and an Eid sacrifice elsewhere.

As for ‘Ā’isha’s statement, “He offered cattle as sacrifices on behalf of his wives” (5), this refers to a pilgrimage offering to which the term ‘Eid sacrifice’ was applied. They were performing tamattu‘, combining ‘umrah with Hajj, and were therefore required to make pilgrimage offerings. Thus, the cattle he sacrificed on their behalf