Is it permissible for two brothers to share one udhiyah (sacrifice) although they live separately?

Is it permissible for two brothers to share one udhiyah (sacrifice) although

they live separately?

Is it permissible for my brother and I to share in one Udhiyah while both of
us have our own homes in different cities? Our mother lives sometimes with
me, and sometimes with my brother and our father has passed away. If the
mother buys an Udhiyah from her own money, is it adequate for me and my
brother?.

Praise be to Allaah.

Firstly:

Udhiyah is a
confirmed Sunnah (Sunnah mu akkadah) and is not obligatory, according to
the
majority of fuqaha . Some scholars are of the view that it is obligatory for
the one who is able to offer it. This is the view of Abu Haneefah and of
Ahmad according to one report, and it is the view favoured by Shaykh
al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah.

Shaykh Ibn
Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The view that it is
obligatory is stronger that the view that it is not obligatory, but that is
subject to the condition that one be able to do it. End quote from
al-Sharh al-Mumti (7/422).

Secondly:

A sacrifice is
valid on behalf of a man and the members of his household, because of the
report narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1505) and Ibn Majaah (3147) from Ata ibn
Yasaar who said: I asked Abu Ayyoob al-Ansaari: How were sacrifices

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offered
among you at the time of the Messenger of Allaah SAWS (peace and
blessings
of Allaah be upon him)? He said: A man would sacrifice a sheep on behalf
of
himself and the members of his household, and they would eat some of it
and
give some to others. Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh
al-Tirmidhi.

It says in
Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi: This hadeeth clearly states that one sheep is
sufficient on behalf of a man and the members of his household, even if they

are many, and that is the correct view.

Al-Haafiz Ibn
al-Qayyim said in Zaad al-Ma aad: It was the teaching of the Prophet
SAWS (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) that one sheep would
be
sufficient on behalf of a man and the members of his household, even if they

were many in number.

Al-Shawkaani
said in Nayl al-Awtaar: The correct view is that one sheep is
sufficient for the members of a household, even if they are one hundred or
more, as is indicated by the Sunnah. End quote.

Thirdly:

Members of the
household include one's wife and children, and other relatives if they live
in the same house and the head of the household spends on them or they
share
household expenses and food and drink.

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But the one

who lives in a separate house or has his own income cannot be included in
the udhiyah and it is prescribed for him to offer his own sacrifice
separately.

Maalik (may
Allaah have mercy on him) said, concerning the members of a household
who
share in the sacrifice: They are the people on whom he spends, whether
they
are few or many. Muhammad ibn Maalik added: And his child and parents, if

they are poor. Ibn Habeeb said: He may include in his sacrifice adult
children, even if they are independent of means, and his brother, brother s
son and other relatives if he spends on them, and the members of his
household. That is permitted for three reasons: ties of kinship, shared
accommodation and spending on him. Muhammad said: He may include his
wife in
his udhiyah because the wife has the strongest bond with him.

End quote from

al-Taaj wa l-Ikleel Sharh Mukhtasar Khaleel (4/364).

Shaykh Ibn
Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked: Is it permissible to
offer one udhiyah for two brothers living in one house with their children
and sharing their food and drink?

He replied:
Yes, that is permissible. It is permissible for the members of one household
to offer only one sacrifice, even if they are two families, and they will
attain thereby the virtue of sacrifice. End quote from Fataawa Noor ala
al-Darb.

Shaykh Ibn
Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked: I am married, praise be
to

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Allaah, and I have children. I live in a city other than the city in which
my family live, but on holidays I go to the city where my family are. On Eid
al-Adha my children and I came five days before the Eid but we did not offer

a sacrifice despite the fact that I am able to, praise be to Allaah.

Is it
permissible for me to offer a sacrifice? Is my father s sacrifice valid on
behalf of myself and my wife and children? What is the ruling on sacrifice
for the one who is able? Is it obligatory for the one who is not able? Is it
permissible to take a loan in order to offer the sacrifice?

He replied:
The sacrifice is Sunnah, not obligatory, and one sheep is sufficient on
behalf of a man and the members of his household, because the Prophet
SAWS
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to sacrifice
two horned rams that were white speckled with
black every year, one on behalf of himself and the members of his
household, and the other on behalf of those among his ummah who
believed in
the Oneness of Allaah (Tawheed).

If you live in
a separate house, then it is prescribed for you to offer the sacrifice on
behalf of yourself and the members of your household, and the sacrifice
offered by your father on behalf of himself and the members of his
household
is not sufficient for you, because you are not living with them in the same
house, rather you live in a separate house. There is nothing wrong with a
Muslim taking a loan to offer a sacrifice if he is able to repay it. May
Allaah help us all.

End quote from

Majmoo Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (18/37).

Fourthly:

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Based on the
above, your sacrifice is not sufficient for your brother, even if you get
together on the days of Eid, and vice versa.

With regard to
your mother, her sacrifice is sufficient on behalf of herself and the
members of the household with whom she is staying.

See the
answers to questions no. 41766
and 45768.

And Allaah
knows best.

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