his Sunnah and guidance: what counts is not the scheduled time of the prayer and sermon, but their actual performance. This is the position we uphold before Allah. He instructed them to slaughter young sheep (jadhaʿ) (1) and mature animals (thaniyy) from other kinds of livestock (2). This is the Sunnah (3).

It is reported that he said: “All the days of Tashrīq are days for slaughtering” (4). However, the hadith has a disconnected chain of transmission; a connected chain is not established.

As for his prohibition against storing the meat of Eid sacrifices for more than three days (5), this does not indicate that the days for slaughtering are limited to three. The hadith indicates that the person who slaughters is forbidden to keep any of the meat beyond three days from the day of slaughter. Thus, if he delayed slaughtering until the third day, he would have been permitted, while the prohibition was in force (6), to keep it for three days thereafter. Those who limited the slaughtering period to three days understood his prohibition against storing meat for more than three days to mean that the first of those days (7) was the Day of Sacrifice. They said: It cannot be permissible for