Sahih al-Bukhari 2488

Translation

My grandfather said, "We were in the company of the Prophet ﷺ at Dhul-Hulaifa. The people felt hungry and captured some camels and sheep (as booty). The Prophet ﷺ was behind the people. They hurried and slaughtered the animals and put their meat in pots and started cooking it. (When the Prophet came) he ordered the pots to be upset and then he distributed the animals (of the booty), regarding ten sheep as equal to one camel. One of the camels fled and the people ran after it till they were exhausted. At that time there were few horses. A man threw an arrow at the camel, and Allah stopped the camel with it. The Prophet ﷺ said, "Some of these animals are like wild animals, so if you lose control over one of these animals, treat it in this way (i.e. shoot it with an arrow)." Before distributing them among the soldiers my grandfather said, "We may meet the enemies in the future and have no knives; can we slaughter the animals with reeds?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "Use whatever causes blood to flow, and eat the animals if the name of Allah has been mentioned on slaughtering them. Do not slaughter with teeth or fingernails and I will tell you why: It is because teeth are bones (i.e. cannot cut properly) and fingernails are the tools used by the Ethiopians (whom we should not imitate for they are infidels).

Notes

• فَقَالَ جَدِّي إِنَّا نَرْجُو ـ أَوْ نَخَافُ ـ الْعَدُوَّ غَدًا، وَلَيْسَتْ مَعَنَا مُدًى أَفَنَذْبَحُ بِالْقَصَبِ. قَالَ " مَا أَنْهَرَ الدَّمَ وَذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ، فَكُلُوهُ، لَيْسَ السِّنَّ وَالظُّفُرَ، وَسَأُحَدِّثُكُمْ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، أَمَّا السِّنُّ فَعَظْمٌ وَأَمَّا الظُّفُرُ فَمُدَى الْحَبَشَةِ

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1968dJami' at-Tirmidhi 1600Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 20153al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19004

Narrators

1. 1
   Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj al-Anṣārī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 59 AH, also said: after 50 AH to 60 AH
   رَافِع بْن خَدِيج الأَنْصَارِيّصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbāyah b. Rifāʿah al-Zuraqī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ مَسْرُوقٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Abū ʿAwānah

   trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AH
   أَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAlī b. al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy (thiqah), narrates unusual reports (yughrib)d. 226 AH, also said: 220 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّثقة يغرب
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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