Sunan an-Nasa'i 4275

Translation

"If you release your dog and mention the name of Allah over him, and he kills (the game), but does not eat any of it, then eat. But if he has eaten from it, then do not eat, for he caught it for himself, and not for you."

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• الزيلعى

  قلت يا رسول الله إني أرسل كلبي وأسمي فقال إذا أرسلت كلبك وسميت فأخذ فقتل فكل فإن أكل منه فلا تأكل فإنما أمسك على نفسه قلت إني أرسل كلبي فأجد معه آخر لا أدري أيهما أخذه فقال لا تأكل فإنما سميت على كلبك ولم تسم على كلب آخر انتهى أحاديث الخصوم استدل لمالك في إباحة ما أكل منه الكلب بحديثين أحدهما أخرجه أبو داود عن داود بن عمرو الدمشقي عن بسر بن عبيد الله عن أبي إدريس الخولاني عن أبي ثعلبة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في صيد الكلب إذا أرسلت كلبك وذكرت اسم الله فكل وإن أكل منه وكل ما ردت عليك يدك انتهى قال في التنقيح إسناده حسن الحديث الثاني أخرجه الدارقطني عن عمرو بن شعيب عن أبيه عن جده أن رجلا أتى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقال له أبو ثعلبة فقال يا رسول الله صلى الله عليك وسلم إن لي كلابا مكلبة فأفتني في صيدها فقال إن كانت لك كلاب مكلبة فكل مما أمسكن عليك قال ذكي وغير ذكي قال ذكي وغير ذكي قال وإن أكل منه قال وإن أكل منه قال يا رسول الله أفتني في قوسي قال كل ما رد عليك قوسك قال ذكي وغير ذكي قال ذكي وغير ذكي قال وإن تغيب عني قال وإن تغيب عنك ما لم يصل أو تجد فيه أثرا غير سهمك انتهى قال في التنقيح إسناده صحيح قال وقد يجمع بين الأحاديث بأنه علل التحريم في حديث عدي بكونه أمسك على نفسه وفي حديث داود وعمرو يحتمل أنه أباحه لكونه أكل منه بعد انصرافه انتهى قلت يعكر هذا بما أخرجه أبو نعيم في الحلية في ترجمة الفضيل بن عياض عن علي بن ثابت الدهان ثنا الفضيل بن عياض عن يحيى بن سعيد الأنصاري عن سعيد بن المسيب عن سلمان قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا أدركت كلبك وقد أكل نصفه فكل انتهى وقال غريب تفرد به عن الفضيل علي بن ثابت والصحيح ما رواه عدي بن حاتم وإن أكل منه الكلب فلا تأكل انتهى

  machine translationI said: "O Messenger of Allah, I send out my dog and mention the name of Allah." He said: "If you send out your dog and mention the name of Allah, and it seizes and kills, then eat. But if it eats from it, do not eat, for it only caught it for itself." I said: "I send out my dog and find another dog with it, and I do not know which of them seized it." He said: "Do not eat, for you mentioned the name of Allah over your dog and did not mention it over another dog." End. The hadiths of the opponents: Mālik is supported in permitting what the dog has eaten from by two hadiths. The first is what Abū Dāwūd recorded from Dāwūd b. ʿAmr al-Dimashqī, from Busr b. ʿUbaydillāh, from Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, from Abū Thaʿlabah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, concerning the game caught by a dog: "If you send out your dog and mention the name of Allah, then eat, even if it has eaten from it, and eat whatever your hand returns to you." End. In al-Tanqīḥ he said: its chain is good (ḥasan). The second hadith is what al-Dāraquṭnī recorded from ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather: that a man called Abū Thaʿlabah came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: "O Messenger of Allah, I have trained hunting dogs, so give me a ruling about their game." He said: "If you have trained hunting dogs, then eat of what they catch for you." He said: "Slaughtered and not slaughtered?" He said: "Slaughtered and not slaughtered." He said: "Even if it has eaten from it?" He said: "Even if it has eaten from it." He said: "O Messenger of Allah, give me a ruling about my bow." He said: "Eat whatever your bow returns to you." He said: "Slaughtered and not slaughtered?" He said: "Slaughtered and not slaughtered." He said: "Even if it disappears from me?" He said: "Even if it disappears from you, as long as it does not rot or you find on it a mark other than your arrow." End. In al-Tanqīḥ he said: its chain is sound (ṣaḥīḥ). He said: The hadiths may be reconciled by saying that in the hadith of ʿAdī he gave as the reason for the prohibition that the dog caught it for itself, while in the hadith of Dāwūd and ʿAmr it is possible that he permitted it because the dog ate from it after turning away. End. I say: This is undermined by what Abū Nuʿaym recorded in al-Ḥilyah, in the biography of al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ, from ʿAlī b. Thābit al-Dahhān: al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ narrated to us, from Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, from Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, from Salmān, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "If you reach your dog and it has eaten half of it, then eat." End. He said: It is odd (gharīb); ʿAlī b. Thābit alone narrated it from al-Fuḍayl. The sound report is what ʿAdī b. Ḥātim narrated: "If the dog has eaten from it, do not eat." End. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 4285

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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
   عن
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Sulaymān al-Aḥwal

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٍثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   عن
5. 5
   Mūsā b. Aʿyan

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 175 AH, or 177 AH, also said: 181 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ أَعْيَنَثقة عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Abī Shuʿayb

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Shuʿayb said: my grandfather died in the year 231 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Kathīr said: 233 AH, also said: 232 AH, also said: 240 AH, also said: 241 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي شُعَيْبٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAmr b. Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥārith

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 280 AH or after it
   عَمْرُو بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْحَارِثِثقة
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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