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The Ruling on Sacrificing an Unspecified Sacrifice
I sacrificed at a slaughterhouse in Kuwait, and the process there is that the person making the sacrifice pays the required amount and is given a coupon with a number on it. They then slaughter the livestock without the person seeing the sacrifice, and they do not write the name of the person making the sacrifice anywhere. It is also not necessary for me to receive the meat from the livestock that has the coupon number assigned to me, as they may pay for livestock that has been slaughtered because the livestock are not uniform in size and amount of meat. What is the ruling on this sacrifice?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: It is permissible to sacrifice in this manner because it is not a condition to mention the name of the one sacrificing at the time of the sacrifice. The condition is that the sacrifice must be owned by the one sacrificing, and this is fulfilled by purchasing the coupon, which means he owns a sacrifice, and it has been slaughtered for him according to its conditions at the time of sacrifice. As for the meat, by purchasing the coupon, he has permitted others to take the meat of his sacrifice, and it is permissible for others to take the meat of his sacrifice, and there is no issue in that. And God knows best.
