Answered by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Question My father is new to slaughtering animals. He’s tried only chickens so far. He sharpened the knife, said he didn’t know how to get it sharper, and slaughtered a chicken, but he had to slice at the throat multiple times, and it wasn’t one clear cut. Is the chicken still […]

Answered by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Question  What is the prescribed method of animal sacrifice? What is the maximum number of cuts, and what happens if the animal moves after the first cut and the knife is raised before the second cut? The sources available in France stipulate that such a sacrifice is invalid according to […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question Is it obligatory for a person to perform udhiya if one hasn’t maintained nisab for over a lunar year? My question is regarding the obligation of making qurbani (udhiya) on Eid ul-Adha according to the Hanafi fiqh. If a person possesses nisab on the day of Eid but hasn’t […]

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch Question When I first began practicing Islam, I followed the ruling that offering Qurbani is a Sunna, not a Wajib. However, after a few years, I began to follow the Hanafi madhab, but I had no idea that Qurbani was considered necessary. So I’ve missed roughly ten years of Qurbani […]