Q: What is the ruling on donating or giving the skins of the Ud-hiyahas (sacrificial animals offered by non-pilgrims) as a gift or Sadaqah (voluntary charity) to any committee or charitable organization in each circle which will benefit from these skins, which is to benefit from their prices by selling them to a Muslim merchant of skins. The prices of these skins will be spent on Prayer rooms, mosques, schools of Qur'an, Islamic nurseries, paying the allowances of the servants of the mosques, buying carpets or cleaning tools, making fences around the cemeteries or on other charitable activities which will benefit the Muslim public...Etc?
A:
It is Sunnah (action following the teachings of the Prophet) to
give the skins of Ud-hiyahas (sacrificial animals offered by non-pilgrims) and Hady (sacrificial animal offered by pilgrims) as Sadaqah (voluntary charity), according to the Hadith of
`Aly (Part No. 10; Page No. 443
A:
It is Sunnah (action following the teachings of the Prophet) to
give the skins of Ud-hiyahas (sacrificial animals offered by non-pilgrims) and Hady (sacrificial animal offered by pilgrims) as Sadaqah (voluntary charity), according to the Hadith of
`Aly (Part No. 10; Page No. 443) ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) ordered me to offer a Badanah (a camel or a cow or an ox driven by pilgrims to be offered as sacrifice within the sacred precincts of Makkah), give its meat, skins and dung as Sadaqah (voluntary charity) and not to give the butcher any of it; and said:
We would pay him ourselves.
(Agreed upon by Al-Bukhari and Muslim). Such voluntary charities can be given to a person himself or a certain organization of a legal status which finances legal activities.May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.