Did Ja’d bin Durrahm slaughter the sacrificial animal on behalf of Khalid al-Qasri?
❀ Kausari wrote in his reprimand about Khalid bin Abdullah al-Qasri:
و القسري هذا هو الذى بنى كنيسة لأمه تتعبد فيها وهو الذى يقال عنه أنه ذبح الجعد بن درهم يوم عيد الأضحى أضحية عنه والخبر على انتشاره وذيوعه غير ثابت
While translating this, Abdul Quddus wrote: And this al-Qasri is the one who built a church for his mother in which she used to worship. And this is the same person about whom it is said that on the day of Eid al-Adha, al-Ja’d bin Durrahm slaughtered a sacrificial animal on his behalf. And this incident, despite being famous and widespread, is not proven.
Abdul Quddus’s statement that on the day of Eid al-Adha, al-Ja’d bin Durrahm slaughtered a sacrificial animal on behalf of Khalid al-Qasri is a very strange and rare discovery. Whereas the original text and its correct translation are as follows:
أنه ذبح الجعد بن درهم يوم عيد الأضحى أضحية عنه
Indeed, he slaughtered al-Ja’d bin Durrahm on his own behalf on the day of Eid al-Adha (as a sacrifice).
According to Kausari, the famous but unproven incident is that Khalid al-Qasri slaughtered al-Ja’d bin Durrahm (the misguided and misleader and denier of the attributes of Allah) as a sacrifice on the day of Eid al-Adha on his own behalf. Whereas Abdul Quddus is singing a different tune: that al-Ja’d bin Durrahm slaughtered a sacrificial animal on his behalf. Glory be to Allah!
Regarding Khalid al-Qasri, the governor of the land of Hijaz and Kufa, Hafiz al-Dhahabi
wrote:
He said on the day of Adha:
ضحوا تقبل الله منكم فإني مضح بالجعد بن درهم، زعم أن الله لم يتخذ إبراهيم خليلا، إلخ.
(O people) perform sacrifices, may Allah accept your sacrifices, I am the one who will sacrifice al-Ja’d bin Durrahm because he says that Allah did not make Ibrahim (peace be upon him) a Khalil (close friend).
Whether this famous story is proven or not, Kausari’s text does not at all say that al-Ja’d bin Durrahm slaughtered any sacrifice on behalf of Khalid. If Abdul Quddus the comparer did not know Arabic, he could have referred to Mizan al-I’tidal
in which it is written: فقتل على ذلك بالعراق يوم النحر, so he (al-Ja’d bin Durrahm) was killed in Iraq on the day of sacrifice because of this (wrong belief). اليس منكم رجل رشيد؟
Warning:
It is not proven that Khalid al-Qasri built a church for his mother.
