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ahmad:1061Wakīʿ > Isrāʾīl Waʿalī b. Ṣāliḥ > Abū Isḥāq > Shurayḥ b. al-Nuʿmān > ʿAlī

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed us to check the eyes and ears, and not to sacrifice any animal whose ears are slit in two lengthwise, any animal that has a round hole in its ear as a distinguishing mark, any animal that has the edge of its ears cut, or any animal whose ears were slit from the back.  

أحمد:١٠٦١حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ وَلا نُضَحِّيَ بِشَرْقَاءَ وَلا خَرْقَاءَ وَلا مُقَابَلَةٍ وَلا مُدَابَرَةٍ  


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Collected by Nasāʾī, Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Ḥākim, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
nasai:4372Muḥammad b. Ādam > ʿAbd al-Raḥīm / Ibn Sulaymān > Zakariyyā b. Abū Zāʾidah > Abū Isḥāq > Shurayḥ b. al-Nuʿmān > ʿAlī

"The Messenger of Allah commanded us to examine the eyes and ears (of animals), and no0t to sacrifice and animals with its ears slit from the front, and animal with its ears slit form the back, a animal with its tail cut, nor an animals with a round hole in its ear."  

النسائي:٤٣٧٢أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالأُذُنَ وَأَنْ لاَ نُضَحِّيَ بِمُقَابَلَةٍ وَلاَ مُدَابَرَةٍ وَلاَ بَتْرَاءَ وَلاَ خَرْقَاءَ  

nasai:4373Abū Dāwud > al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aʿyan > Zuhayr > Abū Isḥāq > Shurayḥ b. al-Nuʿmān from my father

"The Messenger of Allah commanded us to examine the eyes and ears (of animals) and not to Sacrifice and animal with a bad eye, nor an animal with its ears slit from the front, nor an animals with its ears slit form the back, nor an animal with a round hole in its ear.  

النسائي:٤٣٧٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ قَالَ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ وَكَانَ رَجُلَ صِدْقٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالأُذُنَ وَأَنْ لاَ نُضَحِّيَ بِعَوْرَاءَ وَلاَ مُقَابَلَةٍ وَلاَ مُدَابَرَةٍ وَلاَ شَرْقَاءَ وَلاَ خَرْقَاءَ  

tirmidhi:1498aal-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh > Abū Isḥāq > Shurayḥ b. al-Nuʿmān al-Ṣāʾidī / al-Hamdānī > ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that we check the eyes and ears, and not to slaughter the Muqabalah, nor the Mudabarah, nor the Sharqa', nor the Kharqa'"  

الترمذي:١٤٩٨aحَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ الصَّائِدِيِّ وَهُوَ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالأُذُنَ وَأَنْ لاَ نُضَحِّيَ بِمُقَابَلَةٍ وَلاَ مُدَابَرَةٍ وَلاَ شَرْقَاءَ وَلاَ خَرْقَاءَ  

ibnmajah:3143Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Salamah b. Kuhayl > Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī > ʿAlī

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to examine the eyes and ears.”*  

ابن ماجة:٣١٤٣حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ حُجَيَّةَ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالأُذُنَ  

ahmad:1312Bahz b. Asad > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Salamah b. Kuhaylʿan Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī > ʿAlī Suʾil > al-Baqarah > Sabʿah And Suʾil > al-Maksūrah al-Qarn > Lā Baʾs Wasuʾil > al-ʿAraj > Mā Balaghat al-Mansak Thum

“[It may be sacrificed] on behalf of seven people.” He was asked about the cow with a broken horn and he said: “It does not matter.” He was asked about a lame animal, and he said: “If it can reach the place of sacrifice (then sacrifice it).” Then he said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed us to check the eyes and ears.”  

أحمد:١٣١٢حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ كُهَيْلٍعَنْ حُجَيَّةَ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا سُئِلَ عَنِ الْبَقَرَةِ فَقَالَ عَنْ سَبْعَةٍ وَسُئِلَ عَنِ الْمَكْسُورَةِ الْقَرْنِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ وَسُئِلَ عَنِ الْعَرَجِ فَقَالَ مَا بَلَغَتِ الْمَنْسَكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَيْنِ وَالْأُذُنَيْنِ  

ahmad:732Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Salamah > Ḥujayyah > ʿAlī

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears [when selecting an animal for sacrifice]  

أحمد:٧٣٢حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ حُجَيَّةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ  

ahmad:826ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Salamah b. Kuhayl > Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī a man from Kindah > a man Saʾal ʿAlī > Innī Āshtarayt Hadhih al-Baqarah Lilʾaḍḥá > Sabʿah > al-Qarn > Lā Yaḍurruk > al-ʿAraj > Idhā Balaghat al-Mansak Fānḥar Thum

I heard a man ask ʿAli ؓ : I bought this cow to offer it as a sacrifice. He said:[It may be offered on behalf of seven people. He said: [What if something is wrong with] the horn? He said: It does not matter. He said: [What if it is] lame? He said: If it can reach the place of sacrifice, then sacrifice it. Then he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears.  

أحمد:٨٢٦حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ كُهَيْلٍ أَنْبَأَنِي قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حُجَيَّةَ بْنَ عَدِيٍّ رَجُلًا مِنْ كِنْدَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ عَلِيًّا قَالَ إِنِّي اشْتَرَيْتُ هَذِهِ الْبَقَرَةَ لِلْأَضْحَى قَالَ عَنْ سَبْعَةٍ قَالَ الْقَرْنُ قَالَ لَا يَضُرُّكَ قَالَ الْعَرَجُ قَالَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْمَنْسَكَ فَانْحَرْ ثُمَّ قَالَ

أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ  

ahmad:1021ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān And Shuʿbah Waḥammād b. Salamah > Salamah b. Kuhayl > Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī > a man Saʾal ʿAlī > al-Baqarah > Sabʿah > al-Qaran > Lā Yaḍurruk > Wa-al-ʿArjāʾ > Idhā Balaghat al-Mansak

[It may be sacrificed] on behalf of seven people. He said: [What about] its horns? He said: It does not matter. He said: [What about] one that is lame? He said: If it can reach the place of sacrifice [then sacrifice it]. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears. It was narrated that Salamah bin Kuhail said: l heard Hujayyah bin ʿAdiyy say: I heard ʿAli bin Abi Talib ؓ when a man asked him... and he narrated the same hadeeth.  

أحمد:١٠٢١حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ وَشُعْبَةَ وَحَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ حُجَيَّةَ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ أَنَّ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ عَلِيًّا عَنِ الْبَقَرَةِ فَقَالَ عَنْ سَبْعَةٍ قَالَ الْقَرَنُ؟ قَالَ لَا يَضُرُّكَ قَالَ فَالْعَرْجَاءُ؟ قَالَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْمَنْسَكَ قَالَ

وَأَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ  

darimi:1994Abū al-Walīd > Shuʿbah > Salamah b. Kuhayl > Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī > ʿAlī And Saʾalah a man > Yā Amīr al-Muʾminīn al-Baqarah > Sabʿah > al-Qarn > Lā Yaḍurruk > al-ʿAraj > Idhā Balaghat al-Mansak Thum

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears [when selecting an animal for sacrifice] (Using translation from Aḥmad 732)  

الدارمي:١٩٩٤أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حُجَيَّةَ بْنَ عَدِيٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا وَسَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْبَقَرَةُ؟ قَالَ عَنْ سَبْعَةٍ قُلْتُ الْقَرْنُ؟ قَالَ لَا يَضُرُّكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ الْعَرَجُ؟ قَالَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْمَنْسَكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ

«أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ»  

hakim:7534Saʾal a man ʿAlī > al-Baqarah > Sabʿah > Maksūrah al-Qarn > Lā Baʾs > al-ʿArjāʾ > Idhā Balaghat al-Mansak

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears [when selecting an animal for sacrifice] (Using translation from Aḥmad 732)  

الحاكم:٧٥٣٤أَمَّا حَدِيثُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ عَلِيًّا عَنِ الْبَقَرَةِ قَالَ عَنْ سَبْعَةٍ فَقَالَ مَكْسُورَةُ الْقَرْنِ؟ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ قَالَ الْعَرْجَاءُ؟ قَالَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْمَنْسَكَ

وَقَالَ «أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ»  

ibnhibban:5920al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb al-Jumaḥī > Muḥammad b. Kathīr al-ʿAbdī > Sufyān al-Thawrī > Salamah b. Kuhayl > Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī > ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears [when selecting an animal for sacrifice] (Using translation from Aḥmad 732)  

ابن حبّان:٥٩٢٠أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ الْجُمَحِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ حُجَيَّةَ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ قَالَ

«أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ»  

tabarani:14805ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Salm al-Rāzī > Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān al-Marwazī > Maḥmūd b. Ādam > ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. al-Qāsim > Samurah b. ʿAṭiyyah > Khālid b. Saʿd > Abū Masʿūd

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said, "There is no morning meeting, evening meeting, sneezing, or yawning. And the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , commanded us to look closely at the eye and the ear."  

الطبراني:١٤٨٠٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَلْمٍ الرَّازِيُّ ثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ ثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ آدَمَ ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْغَفَّارِ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَا يُضَحَّى بِمُقَابَلَةٍ وَلَا مُدَابَرَةٍ وَلَا شَرْقَاءَ وَلَا خَرْقَاءَ وَأَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ»  

nasai-kubra:4446Muḥammad b. Ādam > ʿAbd al-Raḥīm / Ibn Sulaymān > Zakariyyā b. Abū Zāʾidah > Abū Isḥāq > Shurayḥ b. al-Nuʿmān > ʿAlī

"The Messenger of Allah commanded us to examine the eyes and ears (of animals), and no0t to sacrifice and animals with its ears slit from the front, and animal with its ears slit form the back, a animal with its tail cut, nor an animals with a round hole in its ear." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4372)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٤٤٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

«أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ وَأَنْ لَا نُضَحِّيَ بِمُقَابَلَةٍ وَلَا مُدَابَرَةٍ وَلَا بَتْرَاءَ وَلَا خَرْقَاءَ»  

nasai-kubra:4447Abū Dāwud > al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aʿyan > Zuhayr > Abū Isḥāq > Shurayḥ b. al-Nuʿmān

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed us to check the eyes and ears, and not to sacrifice any animal whose ears are slit in two lengthwise, any animal that has a round hole in its ear as a distinguishing mark, any animal that has the edge of its ears cut, or any animal whose ears were slit from the back. (Using translation from Aḥmad 1061)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٤٤٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ قَالَ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ وَكَانَ رَجُلَ صِدْقٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

«أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ وَأَنْ لَا نُضَحِّيَ بِعَوْرَاءَ وَلَا مُقَابَلَةٍ وَلَا مُدَابَرَةٍ وَلَا شَرْقَاءَ وَلَا خَرْقَاءَ»  

nasai-kubra:4450Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Khālid > Shuʿbah > Salamah > Ḥujayyah b. ʿAdī > ʿAlī

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to check the eyes and ears [when selecting an animal for sacrifice] (Using translation from Aḥmad 732)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٤٥٠أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ أَنَّ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حُجَيَّةَ بْنَ عَدِيٍّ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا قَالَ

«أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَشْرِفَ الْعَيْنَ وَالْأُذُنَ»  

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"عَنْ عَلِىٍّ قَالَ: أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ لا نُضَحِّىَ بِمُقَابِلَةٍ، وَلَا مُدَابَرَة وَلَا شَرْقَاءَ، وَلَا خَرْقَاءَ وَأَنْ لا نُضَحِّىَ بِالْعَوْرَاءِ".