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ibnmajah:3235Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Yaḥyá b. Wāḍiḥ > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Abū al-Mukhāriq > Ḥibbān b. Jazʾ > Akhīh Khuzaymah b. Jazʾ

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I have come to ask you about the vermin of the earth. What do you say about foxes?’ He said: ‘Who eats foxes?’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what do you say about wolves?’ He said: ‘Does anyone in whom there is anything good eat wolves?’”  

ابن ماجة:٣٢٣٥حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ وَاضِحٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُخَارِقِ عَنْ حِبَّانَ بْنِ جَزْءٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ خُزَيْمَةَ بْنِ جَزْءٍ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ جِئْتُكَ لأَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ أَحْنَاشِ الأَرْضِ مَا تَقُولُ فِي الثَّعْلَبِ قَالَ وَمَنْ يَأْكُلُ الثَّعْلَبَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَقُولُ فِي الذِّئْبِ قَالَ وَيَأْكُلُ الذِّئْبَ أَحَدٌ فِيهِ خَيْرٌ