Caution: Translations of Quran and Ḥadīth may lead to possible misapplications and misinterpretations. This site is intended for students of sacred knowledge that are proficient in comprehending classical Arabic and have a strong foundation in Islamic sciences. Also note that religious injunctions rely on several aspects beyond what one may glean through reading individual aḥādīth.
Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī Misc
tirmidhi:1481 – [Chain 1] Hannād And Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ > Wakīʿ > Ḥammād b. Salamah [Chain 2] Aḥmad b. Manīʿ > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father > Qult

From his father that he said: "I said: 'O Messenger of Allah! Is there no slaughtering except upon the neck and the throat ?' He said: 'If you stab its thigh it would be accepted to you.'"  

الترمذي:١٤٨١ – حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ ح وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَنْبَأَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ قَالَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ قَالَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ هَذَا فِي الضَّرُورَةِ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيِبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ وَلاَ نَعْرِفُ لأَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ غَيْرَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ وَاخْتَلَفُوا فِي اسْمِ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمُ اسْمُهُ أُسَامَةُ بْنُ قِهْطِمٍ وَيُقَالُ اسْمُهُ يَسَارُ بْنُ بَرْزٍ وَيُقَالُ ابْنُ بَلْزٍ وَيُقَالُ اسْمُهُ عُطَارِدٌ نُسِبَ إِلَى جَدِّهِ

Add your own reflection below:

Sign in with Google to add or reply to reflections.

See similar narrations below:

Collected by Nasāʾī, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah, Dārimī, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai:4408 – Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

"I said: "O Messenger of Allah, is slaughtering only in the throat or upper chest?" He said: 'If you stab it in the thigh, that will suffice,"'(Daif)  

النسائي:٤٤٠٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ قَالَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَكَ  

abudawud:2825 – Aḥmad b. Yūnus > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

AbulUshara' reported on the authority of his father: He asked: Messenger of Allah, is the slaughtering to be done only in the upper part of the breast and the throat? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied: If you pierced its thigh, it would serve you. Abu Dawud said: This is the way suitable for slaughtering an animal which has fallen into a well or runs loose.  

أبو داود:٢٨٢٥ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ مِنَ اللَّبَّةِ أَوِ الْحَلْقِ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ  

قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهَذَا لاَ يَصْلُحُ إِلاَّ فِي الْمُتَرَدِّيَةِ وَالْمُتَوَحِّشِ
ibnmajah:3184 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’”  

ابن ماجة:٣١٨٤ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ قَالَ لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لأَجْزَأَكَ  

darimi:2015 – Abū al-Walīd And ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar Waʿaffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)   

الدارمي:٢٠١٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ وَعَفَّانُ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ؟ فَقَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ» قَالَ حَمَّادٌ «حَمَلْنَاهُ عَلَى الْمُتَرَدِّي»  

tabarani:6720 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥasan b. Bakr b. al-Sharūd al-Ṣanʿānī from my father from my father > Sufyān al-Thawrī > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī from his father

"I said: "O Messenger of Allah, is slaughtering only in the throat or upper chest?" He said: 'If you stab it in the thigh, that will suffice,"'(Daif) (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4408)  

الطبراني:٦٧٢٠ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ بَكْرِ بْنِ الشَّرُودِ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ جَدِّي عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ الدَّارِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ أَوِ اللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَتْ عَنْكَ»  

tabarani:6721 – Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Akhram al-Aṣbahānī > Abū Maḥdhūrah Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullāh > Dāwud b. Shabīb > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)   

الطبراني:٦٧٢١ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَخْرَمُ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا أَبُو مَحْذُورَةَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ ثنا دَاوُدُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ الدَّارِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَ عَنْكَ»  

nasai-kubra:4482 – Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ from his father

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat or upper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that will suffice you.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3184)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٤٨٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعُشَرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمَا تَكُونُ الذَّكَاةُ إِلَّا فِي الْحَلْقِ وَاللَّبَّةِ؟ قَالَ «لَوْ طَعَنْتَ فِي فَخِذِهَا لَأَجْزَأَكَ»