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tabarani:7432Muṭṭalib b. Shuʿayb al-Azdī > ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ > al-Layth > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Khālid b. Musāfir > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah b. Qays al-Laythī > Rasūl Allāh Ṣallá

[Machine] That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was given a wild donkey while he was at Al-Abwa, and he returned it to its owner, then he said, "We do not retaliate against you, but we are prohibited from doing so."  

الطبراني:٧٤٣٢حَدَّثَنَا مُطَّلِبُ بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ثنا اللَّيْثُ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ خَالِدِ بْنِ مُسَافِرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ اللَّيْثِيِّ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أُهْدِيَ لَهُ حِمَارُ وَحْشٍ وَهُوَ بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ «لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  


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Collected by Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī
ahmad:16427ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah

“Sa;b bin Jaththamah told us: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by me when I was in Abwa’ or Waddan, and I gave him some meat of a wild donkey, but he gave it back to me, and when he saw from my face that I was upset, he said: ‘The only reason that we are giving it back is that we are in Ihram.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3090)  

أحمد:١٦٤٢٧حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ قَالَ

مَرَّ بِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنَا بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَأَهْدَيْتُ لَهُ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى الْكَرَاهِيَةَ فِي وَجْهِي قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ  

ibnhibban:3967Ḥāmid b. Muḥammad b. Shuʿayb > Manṣūr b. Abū Muzāḥim > Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah > al-Zubaydī > al-Zuhrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah

[Machine] "He presented to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a wild donkey, either from al-Abwa' or from Waddan, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned it to me. That hurt me deeply and when he saw the expression on my face, he said, 'We are not rejecting you, but we are forbidden from accepting it.'"  

ابن حبّان:٣٩٦٧أَخْبَرَنَا حَامِدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَنْصُورُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَاحِمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَمْزَةَ عَنِ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ

أَنَّهُ أَهْدَى لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِمَارَ وَحْشِيٍّ بِالْأَبْوَاءِ أَوْ بِوَدَّانَ قَالَ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَاشْتَدَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا عَرَفَ ذَلِكَ فِي وَجْهِي قَالَ «لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7429Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Dabarī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Mar Bī Rasūl

“Sa;b bin Jaththamah told us: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by me when I was in Abwa’ or Waddan, and I gave him some meat of a wild donkey, but he gave it back to me, and when he saw from my face that I was upset, he said: ‘The only reason that we are giving it back is that we are in Ihram.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3090)   

الطبراني:٧٤٢٩حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّبَرِيُّ أَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ قَالَ

مَرَّ بِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنَا بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَأَهْدَيْتُ لَهُ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى الْكَرَاهِيَةَ فِي وَجْهِي قَالَ «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7431Muṭṭalib b. Shuʿayb al-Azdī > ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ > al-Layth > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Rasūl Allāh Ṣallá

“Sa;b bin Jaththamah told us: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by me when I was in Abwa’ or Waddan, and I gave him some meat of a wild donkey, but he gave it back to me, and when he saw from my face that I was upset, he said: ‘The only reason that we are giving it back is that we are in Ihram.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3090)   

الطبراني:٧٤٣١حَدَّثَنَا مُطَّلِبُ بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ حَدَّثَنِي اللَّيْثُ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَهُ الصَّعْبُ بْنُ جَثَّامَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَرَّ بِهِ بِالْأَبْوَاءِ أَوْ بِوَدَّانَ فَأَهْدَيْتُ لَهُ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى فِي وَجْهِي الْكَرَاهِيَةَ قَالَ «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7433ʿAmr b. Ḥafṣ al-Sadūsī > ʿĀṣim b. ʿAlī > Ibn Abū Dhiʾb > al-Zuhrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Ahdá > Rasūl

[Machine] He presented a wild donkey to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , but he returned it. When he saw the rejection in my face from returning his gift, he said, "Indeed, it is not a rejection from us to you, but rather we are forbidden (to accept it)."  

الطبراني:٧٤٣٣حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ حَفْصٍ السَّدُوسِيُّ ثنا عَاصِمُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ثنا ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ

أَنَّهُ أَهْدَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حِمَارًا وَحْشِيًّا فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيْهِ فَلَمَّا رَأَى مَا فِي وَجْهِي مِنْ رَدِّ هَدِيَّتِهِ قَالَ «أَمَا إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7435[Chain 1] Mūsá b. Hārūn > Khalaf b. Hishām al-Bazzār [Chain 2] Yaḥyá b. Durust > Muḥammad b. Thābit al-ʿAbdī > ʿAmr b. Dīnār > al-Zuhrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Ahdá > Rasūl

[Machine] It is narrated that a man gave the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a piece of donkey meat as a gift, but he refused it and said, "We consider it forbidden."  

الطبراني:٧٤٣٥حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ هَارُونَ ثنا خَلَفُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ الْبَزَّارُ ح وحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ دُرُسْتَ قَالَا ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ

أَنَّهُ أَهْدَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ رَجُلٌ لَحْمَ حِمَارِ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَقَالَ «إِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7436Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Wāsiṭī > Whb b. Baqiyyah > Khālid > Muḥammad b. ʿAmr > al-Zuhrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Ahdá Lirasūl Allāh

[Machine] "He gave the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , a wild donkey, but he refused it and showed his dislike on his face. He said, 'We only return it to you because we are forbidden from accepting it.'"  

الطبراني:٧٤٣٦حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْوَاسِطِيُّ ثنا وهْبُ بْنُ بَقِيَّةَ أَنَا خَالِدٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ

أَنَّهُ أَهْدَى لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ فَرَأَى ذَلِكَ فِي وَجْهِهِ فَقَالَ «إِنَّا لَمْ نَرُدَّهُ عَلَيْكَ إِلَّا أَنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7437Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Mandah al-Aṣbahānī > Abū Ḥafṣ ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > Abū ʿĀṣim > Ibn Jurayj > Ibn Abū Labīd > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Ahdayt Lilnnabī Ṣallá

“Sa;b bin Jaththamah told us: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by me when I was in Abwa’ or Waddan, and I gave him some meat of a wild donkey, but he gave it back to me, and when he saw from my face that I was upset, he said: ‘The only reason that we are giving it back is that we are in Ihram.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3090)   

الطبراني:٧٤٣٧حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ مَنْدَهِ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا أَبُو حَفْصٍ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ثنا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي لَبِيدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ قَالَ

أَهْدَيْتُ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى فِي وَجْهِي قَالَ «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7438Aḥmad b. Zuhayr al-Tustarī > ʿAlī b. Shuʿayb al-Simsār > Abū al-Naḍr > al-Masʿūdī > Isḥāq b. Rāshid > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Ahdayt Lirasūl Allāh

[Machine] I presented the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a wild donkey, and it was forbidden (to give as a gift). So he returned it to me, and when he saw the expression on my face, he said, "There is no returning on your part, but we are forbidden (to accept it)."  

الطبراني:٧٤٣٨حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ السِّمْسَارُ ثنا أَبُو النَّضْرِ ثنا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ قَالَ

أَهْدَيْتُ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى الَّذِي فِي وَجْهِي قَالَ «لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7439Aḥmad b. Zuhayr al-Tustarī > ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿd from my uncle > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh from my cousin al-Zuhrī from his uncle > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās Kān

[Machine] "I heard Sa'd bin Jathama saying, 'I gifted a wild donkey to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in Al-Abwa, but he returned it to me. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw the dislike in my face, he said, "It is not a refusal on our part to you, but we are not allowed to accept it."'  

الطبراني:٧٤٣٩حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعْدٍ ثنا عَمِّي ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ ابْنُ أَخِي الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَمِّهِ أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ الصَّعْبَ بْنَ جَثَّامَةَ يَقُولُ أَهْدَيْتُ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا عَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي وَجْهِي كَرَاهِيَةَ رَدِّهِ قَالَ «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7443Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Maḥshī > ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿīd b. ʿUfayr from my father > Khālī al-Mughīrah b. al-Ḥasan b. Rāshid al-Hāshimī > Yaḥyá b. ʿAbdullāh b. Sālim > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > Muḥammad b. Muslim b. Shihāb > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah b. Qays > Ahdá Lirasūl Allāh

[Machine] He gifted the messenger of Allah ﷺ a wild donkey, which was stubborn or untamed. The messenger of Allah ﷺ returned it back to him. He noticed sadness on my face upon returning it to me, so he said, "It is not because we are returning it to you, but we are prohibited (from accepting it)."  

الطبراني:٧٤٤٣حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَحْشِيٍّ ثنا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عُفَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا خَالِي الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ الْهَاشِمِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ حَدَّثَهُ

أَنَّهُ أَهْدَى لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حِمَارًا وَحْشِيًّا وَهُوَ بِوَدَّانَ أَوْ بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيْهِ فَعَرَفَ فِي وَجْهِي كَآبَةَ رَدَّهِ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ «لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»  

tabarani:7444Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Tustarī > ʿAlī b. Ḥarb al-Mawṣilī > Hārūn b. ʿImrān > Sulaymān b. Abū Dāwud > ʿAṭāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Ṣaʿb b. Jathhāmah > Mar al-Nabī Ṣallá

“Sa;b bin Jaththamah told us: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by me when I was in Abwa’ or Waddan, and I gave him some meat of a wild donkey, but he gave it back to me, and when he saw from my face that I was upset, he said: ‘The only reason that we are giving it back is that we are in Ihram.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3090)   

الطبراني:٧٤٤٤حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَرْبٍ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ ثنا هَارُونُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ ثنا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي دَاوُدَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الصَّعْبِ بْنِ جَثَّامَةَ قَالَ

مَرَّ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَأَنَا بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَأَهْدَيْتُ لَهُ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ فَرَدَّهُ عَلَيَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى فِي وَجْهِي الْكَرَاهِيَةَ قَالَ «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِنَا رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّا حُرُمٌ»