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ahmad:18947Wakīʿ > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)  

أحمد:١٨٩٤٧حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ أَوِ اللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَكَ  


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nasai:4408Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

"I said: "O Messenger of Allah, is slaughtering only in the throat or upper chest?" He said: 'If you stab it in the thigh, that will suffice,"'(Daif)  

النسائي:٤٤٠٨أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ قَالَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَكَ  

abudawud:2825Aḥmad b. Yūnus > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

AbulUshara' reported on the authority of his father: He asked: Messenger of Allah, is the slaughtering to be done only in the upper part of the breast and the throat? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied: If you pierced its thigh, it would serve you. Abu Dawud said: This is the way suitable for slaughtering an animal which has fallen into a well or runs loose.  

أبو داود:٢٨٢٥حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ مِنَ اللَّبَّةِ أَوِ الْحَلْقِ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ  

قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهَذَا لاَ يَصْلُحُ إِلاَّ فِي الْمُتَرَدِّيَةِ وَالْمُتَوَحِّشِ
ibnmajah:3184Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’”  

ابن ماجة:٣١٨٤حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ قَالَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَكَ  

darimi:2015Abū al-Walīd And ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar Waʿaffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)   

الدارمي:٢٠١٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ وَعَفَّانُ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ؟ فَقَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ» قَالَ حَمَّادٌ «حَمَلْنَاهُ عَلَى الْمُتَرَدِّي»  

tabarani:6719[Chain 1] ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Ḥajjāj b. al-Minhāl And ʿĀrim Abū al-Nuʿmān [Chain 2] al-Miqdām b. Dāwud > Asad b. Mūsá > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)   

الطبراني:٦٧١٩حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ وَعَارِمٌ أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْمِقْدَامُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ ثنا أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَا ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ الدَّارِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا يَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا مِنَ الْحَلْقِ أَوِ اللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَتْ عَنْكَ»  

tabarani:6720ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥasan b. Bakr b. al-Sharūd al-Ṣanʿānī from my father from my father > Sufyān al-Thawrī > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī from his father

"I said: "O Messenger of Allah, is slaughtering only in the throat or upper chest?" He said: 'If you stab it in the thigh, that will suffice,"'(Daif) (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4408)  

الطبراني:٦٧٢٠حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ بَكْرِ بْنِ الشَّرُودِ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ جَدِّي عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ الدَّارِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ أَوِ اللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَتْ عَنْكَ»  

tabarani:6721Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Akhram al-Aṣbahānī > Abū Maḥdhūrah Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullāh > Dāwud b. Shabīb > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)   

الطبراني:٦٧٢١حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَخْرَمُ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا أَبُو مَحْذُورَةَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ ثنا دَاوُدُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ الدَّارِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ»  

nasai-kubra:4482Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٤٨٢أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَكَ»  

bayhaqi:18931al-Imām Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Isfirāyīnī > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm al-Shāfiʿī > Abū Qilābah ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad al-Raqāshī > Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī from his father

[Machine] He said, "O Messenger of Allah, can zakat be given only in the form of gold and silver?" He said, "By your father, if you were to stab it in its thigh, you would be absolved of it." The scholar said, "And this applies to similar items."  

البيهقي:١٨٩٣١أَخْبَرَنَا الْإِمَامُ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْإِسْفِرَايِينِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الشَّافِعِيُّ بِبَغْدَادَ ثنا أَبُو قِلَابَةَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الرَّقَاشِيُّ ثنا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ الدَّارِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ وَأَبِيكَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ وَهَذَا فِي الْمُتَرَدِّي وَأَشْبَاهِهِ