Musnad Ahmad 18262

Translation

✧ I said, "O Messenger of Allah, my father used to maintain family ties and he did such and such deeds." He replied, "Your father sought something and he attained it, meaning the remembrance." I said, "I ask you about a food that I only avoid out of piety." He said, "Do not abstain from anything in which you find similarity with Christianity." I said, "I send my dog to catch a game, but I have nothing with which to slaughter it, so I kill it with a stone or a stick." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Let the blood flow with whatever you wish and mention the name of Allah ﷻ."

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• Ibn Ḥazm

  هذا خبر ساقط لأنه عن سماك بن حرب وهو يقبل التلقين عن مري بن قطري وهو مجهول

  machine translationThis report is unacceptable (sāqiṭ), because it is from Simāk b. Ḥarb, who would accept prompting (talqīn), and it is from Murayy b. Qaṭarī, who is unknown (majhūl). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18485

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2824

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAdī b. Ḥātim b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṭāʾī

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 66 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH
   عَدِيُّ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الطَّائِيُّصحابي شهير
   سمعت
2. 2
   Murayy b. Qaṭarī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   مُرَيَّ بْنَ قَطَرِيٍّمقبول
   سمعت
3. 3
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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
6. 6
   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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