by slaughtering them, skinning and cutting them up, distributing them in portions to the poor, and eating from them; then preserving them by natural means, such as sun-drying them and making cured dried meat from them under the rays of the sun after salting them, or cooking them with extra salt so that they may be stored. Alternatively, this could be done by some other scientific and technical method, if available. If Muslims were to do this and employ other feasible means and measures with regard to the sacrificial offerings, the complaint would disappear, by Allah’s permission. But to Allah is the complaint concerning the majority of Muslims who make the pilgrimage to those sacred lands while being profoundly ignorant of the obligatory rulings of the rites, let alone other Islamic manners and general Islamic culture. And Allah is the One whose help is sought.

806 — “Al-ʿAbbās is the paternal uncle of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and a man’s paternal uncle is like his father.”

(From Abū Hurayrah, ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, al-Ḥasan ibn Muslim, ʿAlī, and ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Rabīʿah ibn al-Ḥārith.)

Authentic. It has several routes:

The first is from Abū Hurayrah. It was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2/305) and Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī in al-Fawāʾid (3/21/1–2), through al-Aʿraj, from him. Its chain of transmission is authentic, and a version of it is found in Muslim (3/68), Aḥmad (2/322), and others.

The second is from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. Abū Bakr also narrated it: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar al-Thaqafī narrated to us; my father informed us; Ḥuṣayn ibn al-Mukhāriq informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Razīn, from him, attributed to the Prophet. However, this Ḥuṣayn is very weak.

The third is from al-Ḥasan ibn Muslim al-Makkī, attributed to the Prophet. Its chain of transmission is authentic up to al-Ḥasan, who was a trustworthy Successor.

The fourth is from ʿAlī, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Did you not know that a man’s paternal uncle is like his father?”