Muwatta' Malik 20-55

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik, from Yahya ibn Said, from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith at-Taymi, that Rabia ibn Abdullah ibn al-Hudayr once saw a man in a state of ihram in Iraq. So he asked people about him and they said, "He has given directions for his sacrificial animal to be garlanded, and it is for that reason that he has put on ihram." Rabia said, "I then met Abdullah ibn az- Zubayr and so I mentioned this to him and he said, 'By the Lord of the Kaba, an innovation.' " Malik was asked about some one who set out with his own sacrificial animal and marked it and garlanded it at Dhu'l-Hulayfa, but did not go into ihram until he had reached al- Juhfa,and hesaid, "I do not like that, and whoever does so has not acted properly. He should only garland his sacrificial animal, or mark it, when he goes into ihram, unless it is someone who does not intend to do hajj, in which case he sends it off and stays with his family." Malik was asked if somone who was not in ihram could set out with a sacrificial animal, and he said, "Yes. There is no harm in that." He was also asked to comment on the different views people had about what became haram for some one who garlanded a sacrificial animal but did not intend to do either hajj or umra, and he said, "What we go by as far as this is concerned is what A'isha, umm al-muminin said, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent his sacrificial animal off and did not go there himself, and there was nothing that Allah had made halal for him that was haram for him until the animal had been sacrificed.' "

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr

   He was the first child born in Islam in Medina from among the Muhājirūnd. 72 AH, or 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِكان أول مولود في الإسلام بالمدينة من المهاجرين
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Rabīʿah b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Hudayr

   He saw the Prophet (ruʾyah) but did not meet him as a Companiond. 93 AH, or: 104 AH or: 154 AH
   رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْهُدَيْرِله رؤية
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيِّثقة له أفراد
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.