Is it permissible to delay the Aqiqah until after the end of the Coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of the health lockdown?
"The Aqiqah is a recommended Sunnah, not an obligation, according to the majority of scholars. There is no harm in delaying it beyond the seventh day, and it is not missed if the seventh day passes; rather, it should be slaughtered after that whenever it becomes easy. It is recommended to perform it on the seventh day; if that is missed, then on the fourteenth; if that is missed, then on the twenty-first. After that, it can be slaughtered on any day desired."
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