Is there a need for you?’ So, we said, ‘Yes, may Allah -azwj Keep you -asws well! The sacrificial animal have become too expensive upon us’. He -asws said: ‘So gather together and buy one camel, in what is between you all’. We said, ‘And our expenditure would not reach (to that)’. He -asws said: ‘So gather together and buy one cow in what is between you all, and slaughter it’. We said, ‘And our expenditure would not reach (to that)’.
He -asws said: ‘So gather together and buy a sheep in what is between you all, and slaughter it’. We said, ‘Would it suffice from seven (of us)?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes, and it would (even) suffice from seventy’.
[21] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ حُمْرَانَ قَالَ عَزَّتِ الْبُدْنُ سَنَةً بِمِنًى حَتَّى بَلَغَتِ الْبَدَنَةُ مِائَةَ دِينَارٍ فَسُئِلَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ اشْتَرِكُوا فِيهَا قَالَ قُلْتُ كَمْ قَالَ مَا خَفَّ هُوَ أَفْضَلُ قُلْتُ عَنْ كَمْ تُجْزِئُ قَالَ عَنْ سَبْعِينَ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Humran who said, ‘He -asws said: ‘The sacrificial animals became too expensive in Mina one year, to the extent that the camel reached one hundred Dinars.
So Abu Ja’far -asws was asked about that, and he -asws said: ‘Participate in it’. I said, ‘How many?’ He -asws said: ‘Whatever is lighter, so it is superior’. I said, ‘On behalf of how many would it suffice?’ He -asws said: ‘On behalf of seventy’.
[22] Three Divisions of the Scarified Animal: عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الصَّبَّاحِ الْكِنَانِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ لُحُومِ الْأَضَاحِيِّ فَقَالَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَتَصَدَّقَانِ بِثُلُثٍ عَلَى جِيرَانِهِمْ وَ ثُلُثٍ عَلَى السُّؤَّالِ وَ ثُلُثٌ يُمْسِكُونَهُ لِأَهْلِ الْبَيْتِ A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzayl, from Abu Al Sabbah Al Kinany who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah -asws about the meats of the sacrificed animal.
So he -asws said: ‘Ali -asws Bin Al-Husayn -asws and Abu Ja’far -asws both used to give in charity with a third upon their -asws neighbours, and a third upon the beggars, and a third they -asws would be withholding for their -asws family members’.