The sacrificial hide for the imam

Question

Question: (1) Bakr, an imam, owns the nisab and takes sacrificial hides as compensation for leading the prayer; he does not take the price of the hides. Are sacrificial hides permissible for Bakr or not, and is the people’s sacrifice valid or not? (2) Bakr, an imam, owns the nisab; he does not take sacrificial hides as compensation, but says: “If you people give them willingly, it is permissible for one who owns the nisab to take sacrificial hides, because if the one offering the sacrifice, who owns the nisab,…

Answer

Just as the price is impermissible as compensation, so too the sacrificial hide is impermissible, and returning it is necessary. The sacrifice is indeed valid, but in this situation it will be necessary to give the equivalent of the hide as sadaqa.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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