The Case of One Who Sends an Offering Animal Voluntarily but Himself Stays at Home

“I once asked abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who sends an animal for offering with a people, sets the time when they mark their animals for offering and assuming the state of Ihram. He (the Imam) said, ‘At such time…

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that Ali (a.s.), would send an animal for offering. He would then stay away from all things from which a person in the state of Ihram stays away, except that he would not say Talbiyah. He…

“I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who, optionally, not obligatory, sends an offering animal (to be offered as sacrifice) with other people. He (the Imam) said, ‘He sets up with his friends a day. They tag…

“Murad once sent a badanah as offering and commanded to mark and tag it on such and such day. I then said that it is proper not to wear clothes. He then sent me to ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), in al- Hirah, (a place in Iraq). I…