Mawla-e-Rasool Sayyiduna Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that when the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) performed the sacrifice, he would purchase two fat, horned, spotted, castrated rams. Then, when he (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) had performed the Eid prayer and delivered the sermon to the people, one ram would be brought while he (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) was still standing in the Eid ground. He (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) would himself slaughter it with a knife and say: O Allah! This is on behalf of my entire Ummah, those who affirmed Your Oneness and bore witness to my Prophethood. Then the second ram would be brought, and he (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) would also slaughter it himself and say: This is on behalf of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and the family of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) would feed both rams to the poor, and he (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and his family would also eat from them. Sayyiduna Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Then for many years we saw that none of the Banu Hashim performed the sacrifice, because Allah Almighty, due to this action of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), had spared them from the burden and expense of sacrifice.