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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah Ibn Abbas used to say; The least difficult thing acceptable as a sacrificial animal is a sheep. Malik said; That is what I like most out of what I have heard about the matter; because Allah; the Blessed and Exalted; says in His Book; O you who trust; do not kill game while you are in ihram. Whoever of you kills it intentionally; there shall be repayment the like of what he has slain; from livestock; as shall be judged by two men of justice among you; a sacrificial animal which will reach the Kaba; or food for poor people; or the equivalent of that in fasting; Surat 5 ayat 95 and a sheep is one of the animals which is judged to be acceptable as a sacrifice. Allah has called it a sacrificial animal; and there is no dispute among us about the matter. How; indeed; could anyone be in doubt about the matter? A sheep is the kaffara for anything which does not reach the extent of something for which a camel or a cow would be the kaffara; and the kaffara for something which does not reach the extent of something for which a sheep would be the kaffara is fasting; or feeding poor people.