34. The Book of Hunting, Slaughter, and what may be Eaten

٣٤۔ كتاب الصيد والذبائح وما يؤكل من الحيوان

34.5 The prohibition of eating the meat of domesticated donkeys

٣٤۔٥ باب تَحْرِيمِ أَكْلِ لَحْمِ الْحُمُرِ الإِنْسِيَّةِ

(1263) bukhari:5527Isḥāq > Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm from my father > Ṣāliḥ > Ibn Shihāb > Abū Idrīs > Abū Thaʿlabah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited the eating of donkey's meat. Narrated Az-Zuhri: The Prophet ﷺ prohibited the eating of beasts having fangs.  

(١٢٦٣) البخاري:٥٥٢٧حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ صَالِحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ أَنَّ أَبَا إِدْرِيسَ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ أَبَا ثَعْلَبَةَ قَالَ

حَرَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لُحُومَ الْحُمُرِ الأَهْلِيَّةِ  

تَابَعَهُ الزُّبَيْدِيُّ وَعُقَيْلٌ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ وَقَالَ مَالِكٌ وَمَعْمَرٌ وَالْمَاجِشُونُ وَيُونُسُ وَابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ نَهَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ كُلِّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ
(1264) bukhari:4218Isḥāq b. Naṣr > Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd > ʿUbaydullāh > Nāfiʿ And Sālim > Ibn ʿUmar

Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the eating of donkey-meat.  

(١٢٦٤) البخاري:٤٢١٨حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ وَسَالِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ

نَهَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ أَكْلِ لُحُومِ الْحُمُرِ الأَهْلِيَّةِ  

(1265) bukhari:3155Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid > al-Shaybānī > Ibn Abū Awfá

We were afflicted with hunger during the besiege of Khaibar, and when it was the day of (the battle of) Khaibar, we slaughtered the donkeys and when the pots got boiling (with their meat). Allah's Apostle made an announcement that all the pots should be upset and that nobody should eat anything of the meat of the donkeys. We thought that the Prophet ﷺ prohibited that because the Khumus had not been taken out of the booty (i.e. donkeys); other people said, "He prohibited eating them for ever." The sub-narrator added, "I asked Saʿid bin Jubair who said, 'He has made the eating of donkeys' meat illegal for ever.")  

(١٢٦٥) البخاري:٣١٥٥حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ حَدَّثَنَا الشَّيْبَانِيُّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي أَوْفَى ؓ يَقُولُ أَصَابَتْنَا مَجَاعَةٌ لَيَالِيَ خَيْبَرَ فَلَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ خَيْبَرَ وَقَعْنَا فِي الْحُمُرِ الأَهْلِيَّةِ فَانْتَحَرْنَاهَا فَلَمَّا غَلَتِ الْقُدُورُ نَادَى مُنَادِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ اكْفَئُوا الْقُدُورَ فَلاَ تَطْعَمُوا مِنْ لُحُومِ الْحُمُرِ شَيْئًا قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فَقُلْنَا إِنَّمَا نَهَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لأَنَّهَا لَمْ تُخَمَّسْ قَالَ وَقَالَ آخَرُونَ حَرَّمَهَا الْبَتَّةَ وَسَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ فَقَالَ حَرَّمَهَا الْبَتَّةَ  

(1266) bukhari:4221Ḥajjāj b. Minhāl > Shuʿbah > ʿAdī b. Thābit > al-Barāʾ

That when they were in the company of the Prophet, they got some donkeys which they (slaughtered and) cooked. Then the announcer of the Prophet ﷺ said, "Turn the cooking pots upside down (i.e. throw out the meat).  

(١٢٦٦) البخاري:٤٢٢١حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَدِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى ؓ

أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَصَابُوا حُمُرًا فَطَبَخُوهَا فَنَادَى مُنَادِي النَّبِيِّ ﷺ: أَكْفِئُوا الْقُدُورَ۔  

(1267) bukhari:4227Muḥammad b. Abū al-Ḥusayn > ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ from my father > ʿĀṣim > ʿĀmir > Ibn ʿAbbās

I do not know whether the Prophet ﷺ forbade the eating of donkey-meat (temporarily) because they were the beasts of burden for the people, and he disliked that their means of transportation should be lost, or he forbade it on the day of Khaibar permanently.  

(١٢٦٧) البخاري:٤٢٢٧حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي الْحُسَيْنِ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ عَامِرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

لاَ أَدْرِي أَنَهَى عَنْهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ حَمُولَةَ النَّاسِ فَكَرِهَ أَنْ تَذْهَبَ حَمُولَتُهُمْ أَوْ حَرَّمَهُ فِي يَوْمِ خَيْبَرَ لَحْمَ الْحُمُرِ الأَهْلِيَّةِ  

(1268) bukhari:2477Abū ʿĀṣim al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Makhlad > Yazīd b. Abū ʿUbayd > Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ

On the day of Khaibar the Prophet ﷺ saw fires being lighted. He asked, "Why are these fires being lighted?" The people replied that they were cooking the meat of donkeys. He said, "Break the pots and throw away their contents." The people said, "Shall we throw away their contents and wash the pots (rather than break them)?" He said, "Wash them."  

(١٢٦٨) البخاري:٢٤٧٧حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ ؓ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ رَأَى نِيرَانًا تُوقَدُ يَوْمَ خَيْبَرَ قَالَ عَلَى مَا تُوقَدُ هَذِهِ النِّيرَانُ قَالُوا عَلَى الْحُمُرِ الإِنْسِيَّةِ قَالَ اكْسِرُوهَا وَأَهْرِقُوهَا قَالُوا أَلاَ نُهْرِيقُهَا وَنَغْسِلُهَا قَالَ اغْسِلُوا قَالَ أَبُو عَبْد اللَّهِ كَانَ ابْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ يَقُولُ الْحُمُرِ الْأَنْسِيَّةِ بِنَصْبِ الْأَلِفِ وَالنُّونِ