The Book of Hunting, Slaughter, and what may be Eaten

Book 34 of 57 · Sahih Muslim

92 hadith Hadith 4836–4927 Sunni
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The Book of Hunting, Slaughter, and what may be Eaten

Sahih Muslim

92 hadith Hadith 4836–4927 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 837–875 CE period by ibn al-Hajjaj.

The Book of Hunting, Slaughter, and what may be Eaten is book 34 of 57 in Sahih Muslim, containing 92 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Nishapur (Naysabur), Khorasan.

Narrators in This Book

This book features 21 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Adi bin Hatim, Abu Tha'laba al-Khushni, Jabir, ibn Umar, Sa'id bin Jubayr سعيد بن جبير الأسدي.

Hadith in This Book 92 hadith

1 4836 Sahih
I said: Messenger of Allah, I set off trained dogs and they catch for me (the game) and I recite the name of Allah over it (I slaughter the game by reciting…
2 4837 Sahih
I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying: We are a people who hunt with these (trained) dogs, then (what should we do)? Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: When you set of your…
3 4838 Sahih
If it strikes (the game) with its point, then eat, but if it strikes flatly and it dies, that is Waqidh (beaten into death), do not eat that. I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)…
4 4839 Sahih
I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about Mi'rad (i. e. hunting with the help of arrow having a stub end, and he stated the same (as we find in the previous hadith).
5 4840 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Adi b. Hatim with a slight variation of words.
6 4841 Sahih
I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about hunting the game with the help of Mi'rad, whereupon he said: If it strikes (the game) with its point, then eat it, but if it strikes flat, that…
7 4842 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zakariya b. Abu Za'ida with the same chain of transmitters.
8 4843 Sahih
I heard Adi b. Hatim say-and he was our neighbour, and our partner and co worker at Nahrain-that he asked Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him) saying: I let off my dog and find…
9 4844 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated oif the authority of 'Adi b. Hatim through another chain of transmitters.
10 4845 Sahih
Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) said to me: When you let off your dog, recite the name of Allah, and if it catches (game for you) and you find it alive, then slaughter…
11 4846 Sahih
I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about hunting. He said: When you shoot your arrow, recite the name of Allah, and if you find it (the arrow) killed (that). then eat, except when you…
12 4847 Sahih
I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said: Allah's Messenger, we are in the land of the People of the Book, (so) we eat in their utensils, and (live) in a hunting region. where I…
13 4848 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Haiwa with the same chain of transmitters, but with a slight variation of words.
14 4849 Sahih
If you shoot with your arrow and (the game) goes out of your sight and you find it (later on), then eat that if it has not gone rotten.
15 4850 Sahih
Eat it, provided it has not gone rotten.
16 4851 Sahih
He (the Holy Prophet) said in regard to the game killed by (a trained) dog: Eat after three days provided it has not gone rotten.
17 4852 Sahih
We did not bear of it until we came to Syria.
18 4853 Sahih
I did not bear of this from our 'Ulama' in the Hijaz, until Abu Idris narrated that to me and he was one of the jurists of Syria.
19 4854 Sahih
Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having prohibited the eating of all fanged beasts of prey.
20 4855 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated through several other chains of transmitters, but some of the chains have a slight variation of words.
21 4856 Sahih
The eating of all fanged beasts of prey is unlawful.
22 4857 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters.
23 4858 Sahih
Ibn 'Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited the eating of all fanged beasts of prey, and all the birds having talons.
24 4859 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba.
25 4860 Sahih
Ibn Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade (the eating) of all the fanged beasts of prey, and of all the birds having talons.
26 4861 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas through a different chain of transmitters.
27 4862 Sahih
Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) sent us (on an expedition) and appointed Abu 'Ubaida our chief that we might intercept a caravan of the Quraish and provided us with a…
28 4863 Sahih
Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) sent us (on an expedition). We were three hundred riders and our chief (leader) was 'Ubaida b. al-Jarrah. We were on the look out for a…
29 4864 Sahih
'Amr reported on the authority of Jabir that in the expedition of Khabat (leaves) a person slaughtered three camels, then three, then three, then Abu 'Ubaida forbade him (to do so…
30 4865 Sahih
Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) sent us (on an expedition), and we were three hundred in number, and we were carrying our bags of provisions around our necks.
31 4866 Sahih
'Abu 'Ubaida collected their provisions in the provision bag. and he fed us (for some time). Later on when the provisions ran short he gave us one date every day.
32 4867 Sahih
" The army ate out of that (the whale) for eighteen days."
33 4868 Sahih
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent an expedition to the land of the tribe of Juhaina, and appointed a person as a chief over them.
34 4869 Sahih
'Ali b. Abi Talib reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade on the Day of Khaibar temporary marriage (Muta') with women and the eating of the flesh of domestic asses.
35 4870 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri through a different chain of transmitters with a slight variation of wording.
36 4871 Sahih
Abu Tha'laba reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited (the eating) of the flesh of domestic asses.
37 4872 Sahih
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) forbade the eating of the flesh of domestic asses.
38 4873 Sahih
Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the eating of the (flesh) of domestic asses on the Day of Khaibar in spite of the fact that people needed that.
39 4874 Sahih
I asked 'Abdullah b. Abu Aufa about (the lawfulness or unlawfulness of) the flesh of the domestic asses. He said: We experienced hunger on the Day of Khaibar as we were with the…
40 4875 Sahih
I heard Abdullah b. Abu Aufa say: We were smitten with hunger during the nights of Khaibar. On the Day of Khaibar, we fell upon domestic asses and we slaughtered them, and when…
41 4876 Sahih
I heard al-Bara' and 'Abdullah b. Abu Aufa say: We found domestic asses and we cooked them. Then the announcer of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made an announcement that the earthen pots…
42 4877 Sahih
We found on the Day of Khaibar domestic asses, and the announcer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) made an announcement that the earthen pots should be turned over.
43 4878 Sahih
We were forbidden (to eat) the flesh of the domestic asses.
44 4879 Sahih
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) commanded us to throw away the flesh of domestic asses whether uncooked or cooked; he then never commanded us to eat that.
45 4880 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Asim with the same chain of transmitters.
46 4881 Sahih
I do not know whether Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited (the eating of the domestic ass) due to the fact that they were the beasts of burden for the people, so he (the Holy…
47 4882 Sahih
We went to Khaibar with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Then Allah granted (us) victory over them. On that very evening of the day when they had been granted victory, they lit many fires.…
48 4883 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Yazid b. Abu Ubaid.
49 4884 Sahih
When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) conquered Khaibar, we caught hold of the asses outside the village. We cooked them (their flesh). Then the announcer of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made the…
50 4885 Sahih
When it was the Day of Khaibar a visitor came and said: Messenger of Allah, the asses have been eaten. Then another came and said: Messenger of Allah, the asses are being…
51 4886 Sahih
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited eating of the flesh of domestic asses on the Day of Khaibar, and permitted the cooking of the flesh of horses.
52 4887 Sahih
We ate during the time of Khaibar the (flesh) of horses and of wild asses, but Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited us (to eat) the flesh of domestic asses.
53 4888 Sahih
This hadith has hen transmitted on the authority of Ibn Juraij.
54 4889 Sahih
We slaughtered a horse and ate it during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).
55 4890 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Hisham.
56 4891 Sahih
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was asked about the eating of (the flesh) of the lizard, whereupon he said: I am neither the eater of it nor its prohibitor.
57 4892 Sahih
A person asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about the eating of the lizard, whereupon he said. I neither eat it, nor do I prohibit it.
58 4893 Sahih
I neither eat it, nor do I prohibit it.
59 4894 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Ubaidullah with the same chain of transmitters.
60 4895 Sahih
" A lizard was brought to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) but he neither ate that nor declared it unlawful." And in the hadith transmitted through Usama (the words are):" The man (inquirer)…
61 4896 Sahih
It is the flesh of the lizard. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) said: Eat, for it is lawful, but it is not my diet.
62 4897 Sahih
Al-Sha'bi (one of the narrators) asked me if I had heard the hadith transmitted on the authority of Hasan from the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: I sat in the company if Ibn 'Umar for two…
63 4898 Sahih
I and Khalid b. Walid went to the apartment of Maimuna along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and there was presented to him a roasted lizard. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stretched his hand…
64 4899 Sahih
Messenger of Allah, it is a lizard. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) withdrew his hand, whereupon Khalid b. Walid said: Messenger of Allah, is a lizard forbidden? There opon he said: No, but…
65 4900 Sahih
" Ibn al-Asamm narrated it from Maimuna and he was under her care."
66 4901 Sahih
While we were in the house of Maimuna there were brought to Allah's Messenger two roasted lizards. Here no mention is made of al- 'Asamm narrating from Maimuna.
67 4902 Sahih
Ibn 'Abbas reported that there had been brought to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) the flesh of a lizard and Khalid b. Walid was also present there. The rest of the hadith is the same.
68 4903 Sahih
The sister of my mother Umm Hufaid presented to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) clarified butter (ghee), cheese and some lizards. He ate out of the clarified butter and cheese, but left the…
69 4904 Sahih
A newly wedded person of Medina invited us to a wedding feast, and he served us thirteen lizards. There were those who ate it and those who abandoned it. I met Ibn 'Abbas the next…
70 4905 Sahih
I do not know; perhaps it (lizard) might (be one of those natives of) the distant past whose (forms) had beer, distorted.
71 4906 Sahih
I asked Jabir about ithe eating) of the lizard, whereupon he said: Don't eat that as he (the Holy Prophet) felt disgust. He (the narrator) said that Umar b. al-Khattab reminded:…
72 4907 Sahih
Messenger of Allah, we live in a land abounding in lizards, so what do you command or what verdict you give (about eating of it)? Thereupon he said: It was mentioned to me that a…
73 4908 Sahih
I live in a low land abounding in lizards, and these are the common diet of my family, but he (the Holy Prophet) did not make any reply. We said to him: Repeat it (your problem)…
74 4909 Sahih
We went on seven expeditions with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and ate locusts.
75 4910 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Ya'fur with the same chain of transmitters. Abu Bakr (one of the narrators) said" seven expeditions," whereas Ishaq said"…
76 4911 Sahih
This hadith is narrated on the authority of Abu Ya'fur with the same chain of transmitters, and he mentioned seven expeditions.
77 4912 Sahih
We chased a hare at Marr az-Zahrin (a valley near Mecca). They (my companions) ran, but felt exhausted; I also tried until I caught hold of it. I brought it to Abu Talha. He…
78 4913 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Yahya with a slight change of wording.
79 4914 Sahih
Don't throw pebbles. for Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not like it, or he forbade flinging of pebbles since neither the game is taken thereby, nor an enemy defeated. but it may break…
80 4915 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Kahmas.
81 4916 Sahih
It neither inflicts defeat to the enemy nor kills the game but breaks the tooth and puts the eye out. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn Mahdi with a slight…
82 4917 Sahih
It does not catch the game, nor does it inflict defeat on the enemy, but breaks the tooth and puts the eye out. He (the near one of Abdullah b. Mughadal) again repeated it (the…
83 4918 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ayyub with the same chain of transmitters.
84 4919 Sahih
Two are the things which I remember Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said: Verily Allah has enjoined goodness to everything; so when you kill, kill in a good way and when you…
85 4920 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Khalid al-Hadhdha' through different chains o transmitters.
86 4921 Sahih
I visited the house of al-Hakam b. Ayyub along with my grandfather Anas b. Milik, (and there) some people had made a hen a target and were shooting arrows at her. Thereupon Asas…
87 4922 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba through other chains of transmitters.
88 4923 Sahih
Do not make anything having life as a target.
89 4924 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba through a different chain of transmitters.
90 4925 Sahih
Who has done this? Verily Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has invoked curse upon him who does this.
91 4926 Sahih
Who has done this? Allah has cursed him who does this. Verily Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) invoked curse upon one who made a live thing the target (of one's marksmanship).
92 4927 Sahih
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade that any beast should be killed after it has been tied.