Qurbani Notes

A beef share is 1/7th portion of a cattle. The cattle should be minimum 2 years of age or with two permanent front incisor teeth. For Goat/ lamb/ Sheep it is one whole animal per name. The goat or lamb should be minimum one year old or with two permanent front incisor teeth. Al’ham’du’lillah this year we are sourcing yearling lamb which are similar in size/ weight to two teeth lamb which atr called hoggets on Australia. These are grown lamb with minimum permanent front incisors, so called “two teeth”. The requirements for Qurban are that each animal for Qurban needs to be healthy, free from any obvious deformities or defects with no missing limbs, broken horns, or blind in the eye. In addition, as mentioned earlier, they need to have at least two permanent front incisor teeth (as as sign of minimum age which is 2 years for cattle and one year old for lamb as mentioned before. However a grown lamb which is large and indistinguishable in size and appearance to normal one year old sheep may be offered if two teeth animal are not available). Qurban is due on all balegh Muslims (Muslim past the age of  puberty), who have nisab amount of wealth on any one or all of the three days of Eid ul Adha.  It is not due on any children below the age of puberty (na’balegh children) but it is permissible if one is capable and desires to offer it.  It is also permissible to offer Qurban in name of deceased persons including parents and even in the name of Rasul’Allah (peace be upon him) if one wishes. It is not permissible to do Qurbani for other living persons, who are not your dependents, without their consent.  Please clarify any questions you have on the fiqh of Qurbani with a religious scholar. Any fiqh questions/ clarifications posed to us including the ones above have been clarified by our local scholars.