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bayhaqi:19786Abū Naṣr b. Qatādah > Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Faḍl b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl al-Khuzāʿī > Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī > ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh al-Madīnī > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū al-Ṣaʿbah > Abū Aflaḥ al-Hamdānī > ʿAbdullāh b. Zurayr > ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib > Lammā

[Machine] When the owner of Ayyilah or Farwah presented his white riding camel to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , I said, "O Messenger of Allah, if we decorate the bedouin horses with red blankets, wouldn't we receive something similar to this?" He replied, "Only those who are ignorant do such things." And it has been narrated in another report from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).  

البيهقي:١٩٧٨٦أَخْبَرَنَاهُ أَبُو نَصْرِ بْنُ قَتَادَةَ أنبأ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو شُعَيْبٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمَدِينِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ أَبِي الصَّعْبَةِ عَنْ أَبِي أَفْلَحَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ زُرَيْرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ قَالَ

لَمَّا أَهْدَى صَاحِبُ أَيْلَةَ أَوْ فَرْوَةَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بَغْلَتَهُ الْبَيْضَاءَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ لَوْ أَنْزَيْنَا الْحُمُرَ عَلَى الْخَيْلِ الْعِرَابِ لَجَاءَنَا مِثْلُ هَذِهِ فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ وَجْهٍ آخَرَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ  


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nasai:3580Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Layth > Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb > Abū al-Khayr > Ibn Zurayr > ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

"A mule was given as a gift to the Messenger of Allah and he rode it." 'Ali said: "If we mate a donkey with a horse, we will have one like this." The Messenger of Allah said: "That is only done by those who do not know."  

النسائي:٣٥٨٠أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْخَيْرِ عَنِ ابْنِ زُرَيْرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ قَالَ

أُهْدِيَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَغْلَةٌ فَرَكِبَهَا فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ لَوْ حَمَلْنَا الْحَمِيرَ عَلَى الْخَيْلِ لَكَانَتْ لَنَا مِثْلَ هَذِهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّمَا يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ الَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ