An invitation to the ʿaqīqah

Add your baby’s name, the day, the place and who to reply to, and send the picture to family and friends, or print it. It is made on your phone; nothing is uploaded.

Baby’s name

If the name is in our names list, its Arabic, copied from a source, can go on the card.

Your baby is A girl A boy Not saying

Hosted by Optional, e.g. the parents or the family

When

Date Time (optional)

Show the Hijri date tooCalculated (Umm al-Qurā), so it is marked “approx.”: your community’s month may begin a day either side. It is after maghrib (sunset)The Hijri day begins at sunset, so its date moves to the next day.

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Where Place Address Optional Map or directions Optional, a short line such as “Parking behind the hall”

Reply to Optional, e.g. a name and a number to text

A line from the Sunnah

Lines whose Arabic speaks of a boy are offered only on a boy’s card.

مَعَ الْغُلاَمِ عَقِيقَةٌ، فَأَهْرِيقُوا عَنْهُ دَمًا وَأَمِيطُوا عَنْهُ الأَذَى With a boy comes an ʿaqīqah, so shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5472 كُلُّ غُلاَمٍ رَهِينَةٌ بِعَقِيقَتِهِ تُذْبَحُ عَنْهُ يَوْمَ سَابِعِهِ وَيُحْلَقُ وَيُسَمَّى Every boy is held in pledge by his ʿaqīqah: it is slaughtered for him on his seventh day, his head is shaved, and he is named. Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2838 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī) عَنِ الْغُلاَمِ شَاتَانِ مُكَافِئَتَانِ وَعَنِ الْجَارِيَةِ شَاةٌ For a boy, two matching sheep; for a girl, one sheep. Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2834 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī) رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَٰجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّٰتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍۢ وَٱجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا Our Lord, give us joy and comfort in our spouses and our children, and make us an example for the God-fearing. Qurʾān, al-Furqān 25:74 رَبِّ ٱجْعَلْنِى مُقِيمَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِى ۚ رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلْ دُعَآءِ My Lord, make me one who keeps up the prayer, and my children too. Our Lord, accept my prayer. Qurʾān, Ibrāhīm 14:40 أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ وَهَامَّةٍ، وَمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لاَمَّةٍ I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from every devil and every harmful creature, and from every envious eye. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3371 No line

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About the words on the invitation

Two of the ḥadīth about the ʿaqīqah speak of a boy in their Arabic (al-ghulām, and “for him”), so they are translated that way and offered only when you choose “A boy”. The other lines fit any child, and one names a boy and a girl alike.

The Arabic of each line is copied from its source, never typed by us, and the English is our own rendering of the meaning. Its source is printed small beneath it, and a ḥadīth from outside al-Bukhārī and Muslim carries its grading and the scholar who graded it.

The Hijri date is calculated by the Umm al-Qurā calendar, so the card marks it “approx.”: the month your community keeps may begin a day earlier or later. The Arabic of your baby’s name appears only when the name is in our names list, where it is copied from a source.

For what the ʿaqīqah is, who it is for, and how the meat is shared, see the seventh day.

Sources

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5472Salmān ibn ʿĀmir: “With a child comes an ʿaqīqah, so shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him.” It also confirms that al-Ḥasan heard the ʿaqīqah ḥadīth from Samurah.
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2838Samurah: the Prophet ﷺ said, “Every child is held in pledge by his ʿaqīqah: it is slaughtered for him on his seventh day, his head is shaved, and he is named.”Grading: ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd 2838; Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl 1165). al-Tirmidhī (1522): ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2834Umm Kurz: “For a boy, two matching sheep; for a girl, one.” Aḥmad explained “matching” as equal or close (in age).Grading: ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd 2834).
Qurʾān, al-Furqān 25:74Our Lord, give us joy and comfort in our spouses and our children, and make us an example for the God-fearing.
Qurʾān, Ibrāhīm 14:40My Lord, make me one who keeps up the prayer, and my children too. Our Lord, accept my prayer.
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3371The Prophet ﷺ used to seek refuge for al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn: “I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from every devil and harmful creature, and from every envious eye”, saying that Ibrāhīm used to say it over Ismāʿīl and Isḥāq.