Sahih al-Bukhari 4376

Translation

We used to worship stones, and when we found a better stone than the first one, we would throw the first one and take the latter, but if we could not get a stone then we would collect some earth (i.e. soil) and then bring a sheep and milk that sheep over it, and perform the Tawaf around it. When the month of Rajab came, we used (to stop the military actions), calling this month the iron remover, for we used to remove and throw away the iron parts of every spear and arrow in the month of Rajab. Abu Raja' added: When the Prophet ﷺ sent with (Allah's) Message, I was a boy working as a shepherd of my family camels. When we heard the news about the appearance of the Prophet, we ran to the fire, i.e. to Musailima al-Kadhdhab.

Notes

• وَسَمِعْتُ أَبَا رَجَاءٍ يَقُولُ كُنْتُ يَوْمَ بُعِثَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ غُلاَمًا أَرْعَى الإِبِلَ عَلَى أَهْلِي فَلَمَّا سَمِعْنَا بِخُرُوجِهِ فَرَرْنَا إِلَى النَّارِ إِلَى مُسَيْلِمَةَ الْكَذَّابِ

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 4377كُنَّا نَعْبُدُ الْحَجَرَ، فَإِذَا وَجَدْنَا حَجَرًا هُوَ أَخْيَرُ مِنْهُ أَلْقَيْنَاهُ وَأَخَذْنَا الآخَرَ، فَإِذَا لَمْ نَجِدْ حَجَرًا جَمَعْنَا جُثْوَةً مِنْ تُرَابٍ، ثُمَّ جِئْنَا بِالشَّاةِ فَحَلَبْنَاهُ عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ طُفْنَا بِهِ، ف

Other narrations of this report

Sunan ad-Darimi 4

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿUṭāridī

   Mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah), long-livedd. Ibn Saʿd said: died in the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, he said: and al-Wāqidī said: died in the year 117 AH, and it is a slip, al-Dhuhlī said: he died before al-Ḥasan, I think in 107 AH; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: he died in 105 early in the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik. Also said: the year 108 AH
   أَبُو رَجَاءٍ الْعُطَارِدِيُّمخضرم ثقة معمر
   سمعت
2. 2
   Mahdī b. Maymūn

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during al-Mahdī's caliphate, or: 171 AH, or: 172 AH
   مَهْدِيَّ بْنَ مَيْمُونٍثقة
   سمعت
3. 3
   Al-Ṣalt b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī al-Mughīrah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 210-odd
   الصَّلْتُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍصدوق
   حدثنا
4. 4
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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