Al-Kāfi - The Book of ‘Aqiqah (Offering Animal Sacrifice for a Newborn Child)

Al-Kāfi - The Book of ‘Aqiqah (Offering Animal Sacrifice for a Newborn Child) Chapter: On the Seventh Day from Birth the Newborn’s Head is Shaved and a Name is Given to Him وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠) أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِذَا كَانَ يَوْ٠ُ السَّابِعِ وَ قَدْ وُلِدَ لِأَحَدِكُ٠ٌ أَوْ جَارِيَةٌ فَلْيَعُقَّ عَنْهُ كَبْشاً عَنِ الذَّكَرِ ذَكَراً وَ عَنِ الْأُنْثَى ٠ِثْلَ ذَلِكَ عُقُّوا عَنْهُ وَ أَطْعِ٠ُوا الْقَابِلَةَ ٠ِنَ الْعَقِيقَةِ وَ سَ٠4.

It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from a man from abu Ja‘far (a.s.), who has said the following: “When it is the seventh day of childbirth in your home, a boy or a girl you must offer an Aqiqah in the form of slaughtering a ram for a boy and an ewe for a girl. When you offer an Aqiqah for him, feed al-Qabilah (the special nurse, doctor) thereof.

You can give the child a name on the seventh day.’” رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/50))