Zakah - The Obligation of Purity

Note: In the instance of not being able to feed sixty people in a single
day one may feed a single person for sixty days, or two people for thirty
days, or three people for twenty days etc, but in these cases if one
were to try to quicken payment of this by giving all the money in one
go to the lesser number of people, kaff\rah would not be fulfilled, and
this offering would only be equal to one days feeding for the amount
of people fed.
U}#iyyah, Dam and Badanah
U}#iyyah, as mentioned previously, is the sacrifice of an animal at the
time of `Eid al-A}#\. The details have been covered previously. There
is another sacrifice that too is W\jib, that is of Dam.
Dam is of two types. one is like U}#iyyah in the sense that it is a
religious requirement on adult Muslims. The only difference is that it is
specific to people who are performing *ajj. This Dam is called Dam
ash-Shukr.
The second type of Dam, like fidyah, is a means of compensation for
mistakes in *ajj, but the difference is the magnitude of the mistake.
Fidyah is given in lieu of minor mistakes while Dam is in lieu of major
mistakes. Dam, like U}#iyyah, is the sacrifice of a sheep or goat. It can
also be made a part (i.e. 1/7) of a larger sacrifice. (For full details of this
please refer to F|sab|lill\h publication - *ajj & `Umrah: Journey of a
Lifetime)
Badanah is like Dam, but while Dam is the sacrifice of a sheep or goat,
Badanah is the sacrifice of a large animal, i.e. a cow or camel. This is
the largest penalty in *ajj, and is specific to three acts. (For full details
of this please refer to F|sab|lill\h publication - *ajj & `Umrah: Journey
of a Lifetime)
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