{
 "id": "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "sacred-livestock-jahiliyya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "البحيرة والسائبة والوصيلة والحامي",
  "en": "Consecrated Livestock"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أنعام يعظّمها الجاهليون فلا يركبونها ولا يحرثونها ولا يشربون ألبانها إلا الضيف: البحيرة والسائبة والوصيلة والحامي — أنكرها القرآن.",
  "en": "Animals the pagans consecrated — Bahira, Saʾiba, Wasila, Hami — neither ridden nor milked except for guests; the Qurʾan rebuked the custom."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture",
  "humour-and-everyday-life"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "social",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "البحيرة والسائبة والوصيلة والحامي: أنعام عظّمها أهل الجاهلية وحرّموا الانتفاع بها على أنفسهم ابتداعاً، فأنكرها القرآن."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "سنّ [[person/amr-ibn-luhayy|عمرو بن لحيٍ]] لأهل الجاهلية تحريم أنواع من الأنعام: فالبَحِيرة ناقة تُشقّ أذنها وتُطلق إن درّت بعد خمسة أبطن، والسائبة التي تُخلّى لنذر، والوصيلة شاة توصل إن ولدت ذكراً وأنثى، والحامي فحل الإبل يحمى إذا نتج من صلبه حدّ معلوم {cite:sahih-al-bukhari}.\n\nوكانوا يجعلون للأصنام من الحرث والأنعام أنصبة لا يقرّبونها لغيرها، ويزعمون «هذا حرام» على ما يشاءون من البهائم والحرث {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في القرآن",
     "markdown": "قال تعالى: «مَا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ مِن بَحِيرَةٍ وَلَا سَائِبَةٍ وَلَا وَصِيلَةٍ وَلَا حَامٍ وَلَٰكِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ» ([[passage/quran-5-103|المائدة 103]])، وأنكر تقسيم الحرث والأنعام بين الله والأصنام في [[passage/quran-6-136|سورة الأنعام]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كانوا يخصصون إبلاً وغنماً للأصنام فلا يستخدمونها أبداً، فأخبر القرآن أن الله ما شرّع ذلك."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The bahira, the sa'iba, the wasila and the hami: livestock the Jahiliyya people venerated and forbade themselves the use of, as an innovation — which the Qur'an disavowed."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "[[person/amr-ibn-luhayy|Amr ibn Luhayy]] instituted for the Jahiliyya people the sacralising of kinds of livestock: the bahira, a she-camel whose ear is slit and which is freed if she yields after five pregnancies; the sa'iba, freed for a vow; the wasila, a ewe joined in dedication if she bears male and female; and the hami, a camel sire protected once a fixed count issues from his loins {cite:sahih-al-bukhari}.\n\nThey would assign the idols shares of crops and livestock which they brought to nothing else, and would claim \"this is forbidden\" over whatever beasts and crops they wished {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the Qur'an",
     "markdown": "He Almighty said: \"God made no bahira, no sa'iba, no wasila and no hami; but the unbelievers fabricate lies against God\" ([[passage/quran-5-103|al-Ma'ida 103]]); and He disavowed the dividing of crops and livestock between God and the idols in [[passage/quran-6-136|Surat al-An'am]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "They used to set aside camels and sheep for the idols and never use them; the Qur'an told that God never ordained that."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
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  {
   "to": "person/amr-ibn-luhayy",
   "type": "influenced_by",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-5-103",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-6-136",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-6-138",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-6-139",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  }
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 "related": [
  "object/hubal",
  "group/khuzaa",
  "person/amr-ibn-luhayy",
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/azlam",
  "concept/hama",
  "concept/hums",
  "concept/jahili-marriage-forms"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}