Chapter on Hady (the sacrificial offering)

A hady is both garlanded and marked, and the same ruling applies to camels—and to cattle if they have a hump. If the animal has no hump, it is garlanded only, without being marked, while sheep are neither garlanded nor marked. Anyone from Madinah who drives a hady must garland and mark it at Dhu’l-Hulayfah; pilgrims arriving from other regions garland and mark their animals at the place where they assume ihram.

Garlanding (taqlīd) consists of placing around the animal’s neck a rope holding one or two sandals. Marking (ishʿār) is to make an incision in the animal’s left hump according to Mālik, and in the right hump according to others; both methods are acceptable. A report from Mālik supports the right side as well, although the first view is the one most commonly attributed to him.

Once an animal has been garlanded or marked, its dedication is binding: it may neither be sold nor given away. If its owner dies, it is not inherited but proceeds to its designated purpose. For hady and ʿĪd sacrifices only a jadhaʿ sheep (one year old) or a thanī animal (two years old) of any other species is valid.

Blood offerings in the pilgrimage are of two categories: the blood of hady and the blood of nusuk.

1. The blood of hady covers any expiation for hunting, the offerings required of tamattuʿ or qirān pilgrims, and everything due for infractions such as crossing a miqāt without ihram, omitting the stoning of the pillars, or failing to spend the night at Minā or al-Muzdalifah, and other similar deficiencies in the rites of Hajj.

2. The blood of nusuk arises when the pilgrim opts for the fidyah connected to bodily harm—that is, what is incurred by removing hair or nails or by seeking personal comfort, as explained earlier in the chapter on what the muhrim must avoid.