and an act of worship that a person may perform himself, or he may appoint someone to perform it on his behalf if that act of worship allows for deputisation. Slaughtering the uḍḥiyah is one of the acts of worship in which such deputisation is permissible.

Slaughtering the Compensatory Offering in Makkah

Question: I have performed the obligatory Hajj in full, but I am an Egyptian who returned to Iraq while still owing a compensatory sacrifice (fidyah). May I slaughter this fidyah in Iraq or in Egypt, bearing in mind that I did not reach Egypt until after Eid al-Adha? Please advise us, and may you be rewarded.

Answer: The fidyah may be slaughtered only in Makkah, for Makkah is the place where the hadī is to be slaughtered. Any location within the boundaries of the Sacred Precinct (ḥaram) is valid for slaughtering the hadī, as Allah the Exalted says concerning the sacrificial animals: “For you in them are benefits for an appointed term; then their place of slaughter is at the Ancient House” (al-Hajj 22:33), and: “and the sacrificial animals, held back, unable to reach their place of sacrifice” (al-Fath 48:25). Hence the place for the hadī, and for slaughtering the hadī, is the Noble Sanctuary, and its meat is distributed to the poor of the ḥaram when it is a compensatory sacrifice (dam jabrān) offered to make up for a deficiency in Hajj.

If the sacrifice is that of tamattuʿ or qirān, it is likewise slaughtered in the ḥaram; the pilgrim may eat from it, give some in charity, and there is no harm in taking part of the meat back to his homeland.

As for the compensatory sacrifice (hadī al-jabrān), it is given entirely to the poor of the ḥaram, and the one offering it must not eat any of it.