Muhammad (bin Sirin) (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from a man called Salman, attributing it to the Prophet: "With the boy there is an aqiqah, so shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19258
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman bin Amir al-Dabbi (may Allah be pleased with him) as a marfu' narration that he (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded the aqiqah at a child's birth and said: "Shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19259
Salman bin Amir al-Dabbi (may Allah be pleased with him) says that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); he (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded the aqiqah at a child's birth and said: "Shed blood on his behalf and remove the impurity from him."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19260
Muhammad bin Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The aqiqah is to be done at the child's birth; shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him." Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "I wanted to know what removing the impurity means, but no one told me."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19261
Hisham (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) that removing the impurity from the child means shaving his head.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19262
Salman bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "With the boy there is an aqiqah, so shed blood on his behalf and remove the impurity from him."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19263
Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Every child is held in pledge for his aqiqah, so on the seventh day the aqiqah should be offered on the child's behalf, and his head shaved and he be given a name."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19264
Habib bin al-Shahid (may Allah have mercy on him) says: Muhammad bin Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) said to me: Ask al-Hasan from whom he heard the hadith of the aqiqah. So I asked him, and he said: From Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19265
Yahya bin Hamzah (may Allah have mercy on him) says: I asked Ata al-Khurasani (may Allah have mercy on him): "What is the meaning of the child being held in pledge for the aqiqah?" He said: "The parents are deprived of the child's intercession."
(b) Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) says that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the aqiqah on behalf of Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) and had their hair shaved, and Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) gave in charity silver equal to the weight of their hair.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19266
Ikrimah narrates from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the aqiqah on behalf of Sayyiduna Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) with one ram each.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19267
Qatadah narrates from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the aqiqah on behalf of Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) with two rams.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19268
Muhammad bin Ali bin Husayn (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her), the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), weighed the hair of Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) and gave in charity silver equal to its weight.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19269
Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Yahya bin Sa'id (may Allah have mercy on him) that the aqiqah was performed on behalf of the two sons of Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both).
It has also been said that it is from Rabi'ah from Anas, but that is not preserved (mahfuz).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19270
Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that the heads of Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both), the two sons of Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), be shaved on their seventh day; then he gave in charity silver equal to the weight of their hair, and he did not slaughter any other animal.
It has also been said that it is from Yahya bin Sa'id, from Amrah, from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), but that is not preserved (mahfuz).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19271
Amrah narrates from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the aqiqah on behalf of Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) on the seventh day, named them, and commanded that "the harm be removed" from their heads.
Abu Ahmad (Ibn Adi) said: I do not know anyone who narrates it from Ibn Jurayj with this chain other than Muhammad bin Amr al-Yafi'i and Abd al-Majid bin Abd al-Aziz bin Abi Rawwad. Al-Faqih (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Abdullah bin Muharrar narrated a munkar (denounced) hadith about the Prophet's aqiqah on behalf of himself.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19272
Qatadah narrates from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the aqiqah on his own behalf after prophethood.
Abd al-Razzaq said: They abandoned Abdullah bin Muharrar only because of this hadith. Al-Faqih (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It has also been narrated through another route from Qatadah, and through another route from Anas, and it is worth nothing.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19273