Id al-Adha

E214757
Islamic holiday Islamic religious festival public holiday in many Muslim-majority countries

Id al-Adha is an important Islamic festival commemorating Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son, marked by special prayers, charity, and the ritual sacrifice of an animal.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Days of Tashreeq 1
Id al-Adha canonical 1
Id al-Qurban 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic holiday ⓘ
Islamic religious festival ⓘ
public holiday in many Muslim-majority countries ⓘ
associatedWith Hajj pilgrimage rites in Mecca ⓘ
act of sacrifice in Islam ⓘ
calendarType Hijri lunar calendar date ⓘ
category Hajj-related observances ⓘ
Islamic festivals ⓘ
Religious holidays ⓘ
commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God ⓘ
the story of Ibrahim and his son as narrated in the Qur’an ⓘ
dateShiftsInGregorianCalendar yes ⓘ
duration 4 days in many Islamic traditions ⓘ
followsEvent completion of Hajj pilgrimage ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Eid al-Adha ⓘ
Eid al-Adha ⓘ
surface form: Eid ul-Adha

Festival of Sacrifice ⓘ
Eid al-Adha ⓘ
surface form: Greater Eid

Id al-Adha ⓘ
surface form: Id al-Qurban
hasRitual distribution of meat to family, friends, and the poor ⓘ
festive meals ⓘ
giving charity (sadaqah) ⓘ
khutbah (sermon) after the Eid prayer ⓘ
ritual animal sacrifice (Qurbani or Udhiyah) ⓘ
special congregational prayer (Salat al-Eid) ⓘ
visiting relatives and neighbors ⓘ
legalStatus public holiday in Egypt ⓘ
public holiday in Indonesia ⓘ
public holiday in Pakistan ⓘ
public holiday in Saudi Arabia ⓘ
public holiday in Turkey ⓘ
public holiday in many other Muslim-majority countries ⓘ
meatDistributionRule one-third for relatives and friends ⓘ
one-third for the family ⓘ
one-third for the poor and needy ⓘ
observedBy Muslims ⓘ
occursOn 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Islamic lunar calendar ⓘ
prayerTime after sunrise and before midday on the 10th of Dhu al-Hijjah ⓘ
prayerType two-unit (rak‘ah) congregational prayer ⓘ
precededBy Day of Arafah ⓘ
surface form: Day of Arafah (9th of Dhu al-Hijjah)
relatedFestival Eid al-Fitr ⓘ
surface form: Id al-Fitr
religion Islam ⓘ
shiftPattern occurs about 10–11 days earlier each year in the Gregorian calendar ⓘ
symbolizes charity and sharing with the needy ⓘ
faith and obedience ⓘ
submission to God ⓘ
typicalSacrificialAnimals camels ⓘ
cattle ⓘ
goats ⓘ
sheep ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Id al-Adha
Description of subject: Id al-Adha is an important Islamic festival commemorating Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son, marked by special prayers, charity, and the ritual sacrifice of an animal.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Festival of Sacrifice → alsoKnownAs → Id al-Adha ⓘ
Agnibeena → containsPoem → Id al-Adha ⓘ
this entity surface form: Qurbani
Id al-Adha → hasAlternativeName → Id al-Adha ⓘ
this entity surface form: Id al-Qurban
Jamarat Bridge → religiousEvent → Id al-Adha ⓘ
this entity surface form: Days of Tashreeq