Discover the meaning of the term Udhiya (أُضْحِية) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 3 min readName of what is immolated, that is, slaughtered; plural adahi.
With damma of the hamza and its kasra, on the pattern ouf’oula of the alef-verb: named thus as its slaughtering is mostly in its time. In as-Sihah, from as-Soumayri: four names for it: oudhiyya, with damma and kasra of hamza, plural adahi like ouqiyya of wiqaya, its plural awaqi in strengthening and lightening, as in al-Maghrib; and dahiyya, plural dahaya like hadiyya and hadaya; and idha, plural idh like arta and arta. In al-Kermani (and the pronouns): oudhiyya in the sense of immolation; their description by obligation supports it. Said: oudhiyya related to al-idha; on this the correct is to say idhawiyya, for the third or fourth alef, if inverted, inverts to waw in relation, as established. Oudhiyya in the Law: name of what is slaughtered of the specified animal in the days of slaughter, intending nearness to Allah; so named for being slaughtered at forenoon’s time, the obligation named by its time’s name. Its detail in Charh al-Wiqaya: the oudhiyya is a sheep, a cow or camel to seven, if for one of the seven less than seven, even should one of the seven have less than seven: none may lawfully of any, the nearness’s description not dividing. It is due on every free Muslim, male or female, resident and well-off, for self not child, from dawn of the day of slaughter to sunset of the third day; the first day the tenth of Dhoul-Hijja, the last the twelfth, the last of slaughter’s days; as for the tachriq days, their first the eleventh of Dhoul-Hijja, their last the thirteenth: the tenth day of slaughter only, the thirteenth day of tachriq only, the eleventh and twelfth both. In al-Hisn al-Hasin: when he slaughters, let him name and takbir, set his foot on its flank, that is, present its cheek, and say over the oudhiyya: « In Allah’s name, O Allah, accept of me and of Mouhammad’s community: I have faced my face toward Him who created the heavens and the earth, on Ibrahim’s religion, upright, and not…
Name of what is slaughtered in the slaughter days, intending nearness to Allah.
What one draws near Allah by its slaughtering, of the flocks.
Name of what is slaughtered in the slaughter days, intending nearness to Allah.