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Is buying a sacrifice for 100 Euros that is sent to Africa sufficient for buying a sacrifice for the family?

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The Udhiyah (sacrifice) is one of the great rituals of Allah and a confirmed Sunnah according to the majority of scholars. It is permissible to appoint someone to purchase and slaughter the sacrificial animal in a country other than that of the sacrificer. A single sacrifice is sufficient for a man and his household residing with him, based on the Hadith of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. A person receiving meat from a sacrifice does not relieve him of the Sunnah of offering a sacrifice himself. As for someone who obtains a living sacrificial animal through any legitimate means, it is permissible for him to slaughter it, and by doing so, he fulfills the Sunnah of the Udhiyah.

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