Musnad Ahmad 12746

Translation

✧ I entered with my grandfather Anas b. Mālik the house of al-Ḥakam b. Ayyūb, and there were people who had set up a hen as a target and were shooting at it. Anas said, 'The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade that animals be held as targets.'

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Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   فقال
2. 2
   Hishām b. Zayd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 120 AH, or between 121 and 130 AH
   هِشَامَ بْنَ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة
   سمعت
3. 3
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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