Sahih Ibn Hibban 5260
✧ What is permissible to eat and what is not permissible
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ
بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَمَّرَ عَلَيْنَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْجَرَّاحِ يَتَلَقَّى عِيرًا لِقُرَيْشٍ وَزَوَّدَنَا جِرَابَ تَمْرٍ لَمْ يَجِدْ لَنَا غَيْرَهُ فَكَانَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ يُطْعِمُنَا تَمْرَةً تَمْرَةً قُلْتُ فَكَيْفَ كُنْتُمْ تَصْنَعُونَ بِهَا؟ قَالَ نَمُصُّهَا كَمَا يَمُصُّ الصَّبِيُّ ثُمَّ نَشْرَبُ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ فَيَكْفِينَا يَوْمَنَا إِلَى اللَّيْلِ قَالَ وَكُنَّا نَضْرِبُ بِعِصِيِّنَا الْخَبَطَ ثُمَّ نَبُلُّهُ بِالْمَاءِ فَنَأْكُلُهُ قَالَ فَانْطَلَقْنَا فَرُفِعَ لَنَا عَلَى سَاحِلِ الْبَحْرِ كَهَيْئَةِ الْكَثِيبِ الضَّخْمِ فَأَتَيْنَاهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ دَابَّةٌ تُدْعَى الْعَنْبَرَ فَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ مَيْتَةٌ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَا نَحْنُ رُسُلُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَقَدِ اضْطُرِرْتُمْ فَكُلُوا قَالَ فَأَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَهْرًا وَنَحْنُ ثَلَاثُ مِائَةٍ حَتَّى سَمِنَّا وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا نَغْتَرِفُ مِنْ وَقَبِ عَيْنَيْهِ بِالْقِلَالِ وَنَقْطَعُ مِنْهُ الْفِدَرَ كَالثَّوْرِ أَوْ كَقَدْرِ الثَّوْرِ وَلَقَدْ أَخَذَ مِنَّا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا فَأَقْعَدَهُمْ فِي وَقَبِ عَيْنِهِ وَأَخَذَ ضِلَعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهِ فَأَقَامَهَا ثُمَّ أَرْحَلَ أَعْظَمَ بَعِيرٍ مِنَّا فَمَرَّ تَحْتَهَا قَالَ وَتَزَوَّدْنَا مِنْ لَحْمِهِ وَشَائِقَ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ أَتَيْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَذَكَرْنَا ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ «هُوَ رِزْقٌ أَخْرَجَهُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ فَهَلْ مِنْ لَحْمِهِ مَعَكُمْ شَيْءٌ تُطْعِمُونَا؟ » فَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِ مِنْهُ فَأَكَلَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Khalīfah
- Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī
- Abū Khaythamah Zuhayr b. Muʿāwiyah
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched us and appointed Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah as our commander to meet a caravan of Quraysh. He provisioned us with a sack of dates, finding nothing else for us. Abu 'Ubaydah would feed us one date at a time. I said, 'How did you manage with it?' He said, 'We would suck it as a child sucks, then drink water over it, and it sufficed us for our day until night. And we would beat the leaves of the mimosa flava tree with our sticks, then moisten them with water and eat them.' Then we set out, and there appeared to us on the seashore something like a huge sand dune. We came to it and found it was a creature called the sperm whale. Abu 'Ubaydah said, 'It is carrion.' Then he said, 'No, we are the messengers of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, in the path of Allah, and you have been compelled by necessity, so eat.' We stayed with it for a month, and we were three hundred, until we grew fat. I saw us scooping fat from its eye socket with large vessels, and cutting pieces from it like an ox or the size of an ox. Abu 'Ubaydah took thirteen men from us and seated them in its eye socket. He took one of its ribs and stood it upright, then saddled the largest camel we had, and it passed under it. We provisioned ourselves with its meat and strips of dried meat. When we came to Madinah, we went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him about that. He said, 'It is provision that Allah brought out for you. Do you have any of its meat with you to feed us?' So we sent some of it to him, and he ate it.
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Other narrations of this report
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبُو الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 172 AH, or: 173 AH, or: 174 AH, 177 AHأَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 226 AH, or 227 AH, also said: 229 AHأَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 305 AHأَبُو خَلِيفَةَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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