Chapter: The prohibition of eating sacrificial meat for more than three days, which applied at the beginning of Islam but was then abrogated, and now it is permissible to eat it as long as one wants.
Abu Ubaid reported: I was with ' Ali Ibn Abi Talib (RA) on the occasion of the 'Id day. He started with the 'Id prayer before delivering the sermon, and said: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade us to eat the flesh of our sacrificial animals beyond three days.
Abu 'Ubaid, the freed slave of Ibn Azhar, reported that he said 'Id (prayer) with Umar bin al-Khattab, and then said the 'Id (prayer) with 'Ali bin Abu Talib. He (the narrator further) reported: He led us in prayer before delivering the sermon and then addressed the people saying: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has forbidden you to eat the flesh of your sacrificial animals beyond three nights, so do not eat that.
Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade that the flesh of sacrificial animals be eaten beyond three (days) Salim (son of Ibn 'Umar (RA) ) said: Ibn 'Umar did not eat the flesh of the sacrificial animals beyond three (days). Ibn Abu 'Umar said:" Beyond three days."
Abdullah bin Waqid reported: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade (people) to cat the flesh of sacrificed animals beyond three days.'Abdullah bin Abu Bakr (RA) said, I made a mention of that to 'Amra, whereupon she said: He has told the truth, for I heard 'A'isha say: The poor among the people of the desert come (to the towns) on the occasion of Id al-Adha during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) . Upon this Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Retain with you (the flesh) sufficing for three (days), and whatever is left out of that give in charity. After this. they (the Muslims) said: Allah's Messenger, the people make waterskins with the (hides) of their sacrificed animals and they melt fat out of them. Thereupon he said. What the then? They said: You forbade (us) to eat the flesh of sacrificial animals beyond threoq (days), whereupon he said: I forbade you for those (poor persons) who flocked (to the towns on this occasion for getting meat) but now when (this situation has improved) you may eat, preserve and give -in charity.
Jabir reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) forbade eating of the flesh of sacrificed animals beyond three (days). but afterwards said: Eat, make a provision, and keep it.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, Ali ibn Mushir narrated to us. And Yahya ibn Ayyub narrated to us, Ibn 'Ulayyah narrated to us, both of them from Ibn Jurayj, from 'Ata', from Jabir. And Muhammad ibn Hatim narrated to me—and the wording is his—Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, 'Ata' narrated to us, he said: I heard Jabir ibn 'Abdullah say: "We used not to eat from the meat of our sacrificial animals beyond three (days) at Mina, but the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, permitted us, and said: 'Eat and take provisions.' I said to 'Ata': Did Jabir say, 'until we came to al-Madinah'? He said: Yes."
Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported: We did not eat the flesh of sacrificed animals beyond three (days), but then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) commanded us to make it a provision for journey and cat it (beyond three days).
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, Abdul A'la narrated to us, from al-Jurayri, from Abu Nadrah, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri. And Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, Abdul A'la narrated to us, Sa'id narrated to us, from Qatadah, from Abu Nadrah, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "O people of Madinah, do not eat the meat of the sacrifices for more than three [days]." Ibn al-Muthanna said: "three days." So they complained to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that they had dependents, servants, and helpers. So he said: "Eat, feed others, and keep or store [it]." Ibn al-Muthanna said: Abdul A'la was uncertain.
Salama bin al-Akwa' reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) having said: He who sacrifices (animal) among you nothing should be left in his house (out of its flesh) on the morning of the third day. When it was the next year they (his Companions) said: Should we do this year as we did daring the previous year? Thereupon he said: Don't do that, for that was a year when the people were hard pressed (on account of poverty). so I wanted that the (flesh) might be distributed amongst them.
Thauban reported that Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) slaughtered his sacrificial animal and then said: Thauban, make his meat usable (for journey), and I continuously served him that until he arrived in Madinah.
Thauban, the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) , reported: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to me on the occasion of Hajjat-al-Wada' (the Farewell Pilgrimage): Make the flesh usable. So I made it usable (for him) and he ate it constantly until he reached Madinah.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Yabya bin Hamza with the same chain of transmitters, but he did not say: On the occasion of Hajjat-al-Wada'.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, they said: Muhammad ibn Fudayl narrated to us, Abu Bakr said: from Abu Sinan, and Ibn al-Muthanna said: from Dhirar ibn Murrah, from Muharib, from Ibn Buraydah, from his father.
And Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Fudayl narrated to us, Dhirar ibn Murrah Abu Sinan narrated to us, from Muharib ibn Dithar, from Abdullah ibn Buraydah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "I had forbidden you from visiting graves, so visit them; and I had forbidden you from storing the meat of sacrificial animals beyond three days, so keep as much as you wish; and I had forbidden you from nabidh except in a skin, so drink from all vessels but do not drink anything intoxicating."
Ibn Buraida, on the authority of his father, reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said this: I used to forbid you. The rest of the hadith is the same.