The Sufficient (Vol 4) · Hadith 1867 (#Ḥadīth #2)

2ـ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) عَنْ قَوْمٍ غَلَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الأَضَاحِيُّ وَهُمْ مُتَمَتِّعُونَ وَهُمْ مُتَرَافِقُونَ وَلَيْسُوا بِأَهْلِ بَيْتٍ وَاحِدٍ وَقَدِ اجْتَمَعُوا فِي مَسِيرِهِمْ وَمَضْرَبُهُمْ وَاحِدٌ أَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَذْبَحُوا بَقَرَةً فَقَالَ لا أُحِبُّ ذَلِكَ إِلاَّ مِنْ ضَرُورَةٍ.

2. Abu Ali al-Ash’ariy has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan ibn Yahya from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hajjaj who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ibrahim , about the case of a people for whom offering animals become very expensive, who are for al-Tamattu‘ (advantageous), in one company but not of the same family. They have come together; their way and camp is one, if they can slaughter one cow. He (the Imam) said, ‘I do not like it unless it is urgency.’”

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