Sunan Abi Dawud 3790

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade us to eat horse-flesh, the flesh of mules and of asses. The narrator Haywah added: Every beast of prey with a fang. Abu Dawud said: This view is held by Malik. Abu Dawud said: There is no harm in (eating) horse-flesh and this tradition is not practised. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been abrogated. A body of Companions of the Prophet ﷺ had eaten horse-flesh. OF them are: Ibn al-Zubair, Fudalah bin 'Ubaid, Anas bin Malik, Asma' daughter of Abu Bakr, Suwaid bin Ghaflah, 'Alqamah; the Quraish used to slaughter them (horses) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Notes

• زَادَ حَيْوَةُ وَكُلِّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ مَالِكٍ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ لاَ بَأْسَ بِلُحُومِ الْخَيْلِ وَلَيْسَ الْعَمَلُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهَذَا مَنْسُوخٌ قَدْ أَكَلَ لُحُومَ الْخَيْلِ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مِنْهُمُ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ وَفَضَالَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ وَأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ وَأَسْمَاءُ ابْنَةُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ غَفَلَةَ وَعَلْقَمَةُ وَكَانَتْ قُرَيْشٌ فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَذْبَحُهَا

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ مَالِكٍ. قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ لاَ بَأْسَ بِلُحُومِ الْخَيْلِ وَلَيْسَ الْعَمَلُ عَلَيْهِ. قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهَذَا مَنْسُوخٌ قَدْ أَكَلَ لُحُومَ الْخَيْلِ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْهُمُ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ وَفَضَالَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ وَأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ وَأَسْمَاءُ ابْنَةُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ غَفَلَةَ وَعَلْقَمَةُ وَكَانَتْ قُرَيْشٌ فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم تَذْبَحُهَا.

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What scholars said about it

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• Mubarakpūri

  لا يصلح للاحتجاج ولا للاستشهاد ولا للاعتبار

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3786
• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  سنده جيد

  machine translationIts chain of transmission is good (jayyid). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3786
• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  ضعفه

  machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3786
• al-Bukhari

  ضعفه

  machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3786

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 4130وَعَن خالدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَهَى عَنْ أَكْلِ لُحُومِ الْخَيْلِ والبِغالِ والحميرِ. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالنَّسَائِيّ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3155Sahih al-Bukhari 5115Sahih Muslim 1938aSahih Muslim 1938eSunan an-Nasa'i 69al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 738

Narrators

1. 1
   Khālid b. al-Walīd b. al-Mughīrah

   One of the senior Companions.d. 21 AH, or: 22 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr mentioned that he died 17 AH or 18 AH
   خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِمن كبار الصحابة.
   عن
2. 2
   al-Miqdām b. Maʿdī Karib al-Kindī

   a well-known Companiond. 87 AH, also said: 83 AH, also said: 86 AH, also said: 88 AH
   جَدِّهِصحابي مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Abīhi

   unknown status (mastūr)
   أَبِيهِمستور .
   عن
4. 4
   Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā b. al-Miqdām

   weak (layyin)
   صَالِحِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِي كَرِبَلين
   عن
5. 5
   Thawr b. Yazīd

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AH
   ثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدر
   عن
6. 6
   Baqiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
   بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   نا
7. 7
   Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah).d. 224 AH.
   وَحَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ .ثقة.
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Also in

Mishkat al-Masabih 4130a