Narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) saw a man driving a sacrificial animal, so he (peace be upon him) said: "Ride on it." He said, (O Messenger of Allah!) this is a sacrificial animal (how can I ride on it?). So he (peace be upon him) said: "Ride on it." He again said, this is a sacrificial animal. Then for the second or third time, he (peace be upon him) said: "Woe to you, ride on it."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed Tamattu’ in the Farewell Hajj with ‘Umrah and Hajj together and brought the sacrificial animal with him. So he brought the sacrificial animal from Dhul-Hulaifah and first put on the Ihram for ‘Umrah, then after that put on the Ihram for Hajj. Thus, other people also performed Tamattu’ with ‘Umrah and Hajj along with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in his following, and some of them brought sacrificial animals and some did not. So when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Makkah, he said to the people:“Whoever among you has brought the sacrificial animal should avoid what is avoided in Ihram until the Hajj is completed, and whoever has not brought it should perform Tawaf of the Ka’bah and Sa’i between Safa and Marwah, cut his hair, and come out of Ihram. After that, on the seventh or eighth of Dhul-Hijjah, he should put on Ihram only for Hajj (then perform Hajj and offer sacrifice). Then whoever cannot find a sacrificial animal should fast three days during the days of Hajj and seven days when he returns home.”

Narrated from Sayyiduna Miswar bin Makhrama and Marwan (may Allah be pleased with them) that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) set out for the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah with more than a thousand companions, until when he reached Dhul-Hulaifah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) put a garland around the neck of the sacrificial animal and marked it with a slight wound using a knife, and assumed the Ihram for Umrah.

Narrated from Umm al-Mu'mineen Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) that she heard that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: Whoever sends a sacrificial animal to the Ka'bah, all those things become forbidden for him which are forbidden for a pilgrim, until his sacrifice is offered. Umm al-Mu'mineen Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) replied: What Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) has said is not correct, because I myself tied the garlands of the sacrificial animals of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) with my own hands. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) put those garlands on the animals with his own hands, then sent those animals along with my father (Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him), but nothing which Allah had made lawful for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) became forbidden for him until the sacrifice of the animals.

It is narrated from Umm al-Mu'minin Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent goats for sacrifice. And in another narration, it is stated that he (peace and blessings be upon him) would send the goats after putting collars on them, while he himself remained in his house in a state of being non-muhrim (not in the state of ihram).

Umm al-Mu'mineen Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: I made necklaces for the sacrificial animals from the cotton that I had.

Amir al-Mu'minin Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded me to give away in charity the saddles and skins of the animals that were sacrificed.

Umm al-Mu'mineen Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) says: We set out from Madinah on the 25th of Dhu al-Qa'dah... This hadith has already been mentioned before (see the chapter: The explanation of Tamattu', Qiran, and Ifrad Hajj, and the permission for one who does not have a sacrificial animal to change his Hajj into 'Umrah...). Here, in this narration, it is further mentioned that on the day of sacrifice, beef was brought before us, so I asked, "What kind of meat is this?" The one who brought it replied, "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) offered a sacrifice on behalf of his wives."

`Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) used to offer sacrifice at the place of sacrifice, that is, at the place where the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to offer sacrifice.

`Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) passed by a man who had made his animal (camel) sit down in order to slaughter it. So he said, "Make it stand and tie its leg (and then slaughter it), for this is the Sunnah of Muhammad (peace be upon him)."