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السيوطي:٢٣٤٣١a

"مَنْ وَجَدَ دَابَّةً قَدْ عَجَزَ عَنْهَا أَهْلُهَا أَنْ يَعْلِفُوهَا فَسَيَّبُوُها فَأَخَذَهَا فَأَحْيَاهَا فَهِيَ لَهُ".  

[د] أبو داود [ق] البيهقى في السنن عن الشعبي عن غير واحد من الصحابة

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Collected by Abū Dāwūd
abudawud:3524[Chain 1] Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl > Ḥammād [Chain 2] Mūsá > Abān > ʿUbaydullāh b. Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥimyarī > al-Shaʿbī > Abān > ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī > Rasūl

The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone finds an animal whose owners were helpless to provide fodder to it and so they turned it out (of their house), and he took it and looked after it, it will belong to him. Abu Dawud said: This is the tradition of Hammad. It is more plain and perfect.  

أبو داود:٣٥٢٤حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ عَنْ أَبَانَ أَنَّ عَامِرًا الشَّعْبِيَّ حَدَّثَهُ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ وَجَدَ دَابَّةً قَدْ عَجَزَ عَنْهَا أَهْلُهَا أَنْ يَعْلِفُوهَا فَسَيَّبُوهَا فَأَخَذَهَا فَأَحْيَاهَا فَهِيَ لَهُ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ أَبَانَ قَالَ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ فَقُلْتُ عَمَّنْ قَالَ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ  

قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهَذَا حَدِيثُ حَمَّادٍ وَهُوَ أَبْيَنُ وَأَتَمُّ