It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Slaughter only a two-toothed animal (musinnah); if there is difficulty (i.e. a two-toothed animal is not found), then sacrifice a jadha'ah of sheep."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19057
Sayyiduna al-Bara' bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the day of sacrifice the very first thing is the prayer, and after it the sacrifice is made. Whoever adopts this way has attained the Sunnah. And whoever sacrifices before the prayer, it is only meat that he has presented to his family; it has nothing to do with the sacrificial rite." Sayyiduna Abu Burdah bin Niyar al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I have sacrificed before the prayer, but I have a jadha'ah which is better than a two-toothed animal. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Very well, but it will not suffice for anyone after you."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19058
Amir narrates from Sayyiduna al-Bara' bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) that (he said): My maternal uncle, Sayyiduna Abu Burdah bin Niyar (may Allah be pleased with him), sacrificed before the prayer. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is a goat for meat." He said: O Messenger of Allah! I have a jadha'ah of goats. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sacrifice this one, but it is not valid for anyone else."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19059
Khalid narrated through his chain that (he said): O Messenger of Allah! I have a jadha'ah kid of a domestic goat. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Slaughter it, but it is not valid for anyone else."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19060
Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed sacrificial animals among his Companions, and a jadha'ah animal fell to the share of Sayyiduna Uqbah (may Allah be pleased with him). I said: O Messenger of Allah! I have a jadha'ah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sacrifice it."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19061
Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) assigned me the duty of distributing sacrificial animals among the Companions, and one jadha'ah of goats remained. I informed the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sacrifice it."
The Shaykh said: This was a permission for Uqbah (may Allah be pleased with him) alone; it is not a concession for anyone else.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19062
Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me sacrificial animals to distribute among his companions, and a jadha'ah of goats was left for me. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You sacrifice it, but after you there is no concession for anyone."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19063
Sayyiduna Zayd bin Khalid al-Juhani (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed goats among the Companions and gave me a jadha'ah of goats, and said: "Sacrifice it." I asked: This is a jadha'ah of goats; shall I sacrifice it? He (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted it, so I slaughtered it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19064
Sa'id bin al-Musayyab (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from a man of Juhaynah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A jadha'ah of sheep will suffice in sacrifice."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19065
Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We sacrificed jadha'ahs of sheep with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
(b) Mu'adh bin Abdullah bin Khubayb al-Juhani says: I asked Sa'id bin al-Musayyab about the jadha'ah of sheep, and he said: Sacrifice it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19066
Asim bin Kulayb narrates from his father that Sayyiduna Mujashi' bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) was with us in a military expedition when goats became scarce, so he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The jadha'ah will suffice for that for which a two-toothed animal suffices."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19067
Asim bin Kulayb narrates from his father that the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) were with Sayyiduna Mujashi' al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) when the sacrificial animals ran short, and a man from the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up and said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "A jadha'ah of sheep will suffice in place of a musinnah."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19068
Asim bin Kulayb narrates from his father: We were with a man of Banu Sulaym, Sayyiduna Mujashi' (may Allah be pleased with him), when goats became scarce, and a caller said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "A jadha'ah of sheep will suffice in place of a musinnah."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19069
Asim bin Kulayb narrates from his father that there was a Companion, Sayyiduna Mujashi' bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him); goats became scarce, so a caller announced that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A jadha'ah of sheep will suffice in place of a musinnah animal."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19070
Asim bin Kulayb narrates from his father, and he from a man (may Allah be pleased with him) of the tribe of Juhaynah or Muzaynah, that they were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) a day or two before the sacrifice, and they used to give two goats in exchange for one musinnah. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The jadha'ah, i.e. of sheep, suffices in place of a musinnah animal."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19071
Umm Bilal (may Allah be pleased with her), a woman of the tribe of Aslam, whose father (may Allah be pleased with him) was with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of Hudaybiyah, says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sacrifice the jadha'ah of sheep, for it is permissible."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19072
Umm Bilal bint Hilal (may Allah be pleased with her) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is permissible to sacrifice a jadha'ah ram of sheep."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19073
Abu Kibash says: I brought jadha'ah sheep to Madinah, but they would not sell for me. I met Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) and he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best sacrifice is the jadha'ah ram of sheep." The narrator says: Then the people snapped them up.
Al-Bukhari said: Others besides Uthman bin Waqid narrated it from Abu Hurayrah as mawquf (his own statement).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19074
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) says that on the day of sacrifice Jibril (peace be upon him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What do you think of these sacrifices of ours?" Jibril (peace be upon him) said: "The inhabitants of the heavens also take pride in this. O Muhammad! Know that the jadha'ah ram of sheep is better even than camels and cattle. If there were any sacrifice better than it, Allah would have provided it as the ransom for Ibrahim."
(b) Abu Ja'far al-Simnani narrates from Ishaq: The jadha'ah of sheep is better than the musinnah of goats.
Ishaq is alone in narrating it, and there is weakness in his hadith.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19075
Sa'id bin al-Musayyab (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from one of the Pure Wives (may Allah be pleased with them): "Sacrificing a jadha'ah ram of sheep is more beloved to me than (sacrificing) a musinnah of goats."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19076
Mutarrif narrates from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him): Even if we had a thousand goats, I would sacrifice a jadha'ah ram of sheep.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19077
Abbad bin Abi al-Darda' (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father (Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda', may Allah be pleased with him) that two jadha'ah rams, black and white, were given as a gift to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) sacrificed them.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19078
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sacrificed camels in Madinah. At times he also sacrificed rams, when camels were not available.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19079
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) received one hundred sacrificial animals as a gift, among which was the camel of Abu Jahl, whose nose-ring was of silver.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19080