He said: "And if it eats from it?" He said: "O Messenger of Allah, give me a ruling regarding my bow." He said: "Eat what your bow returns to you." He said: "Whether it is slaughtered properly or not slaughtered properly?" He said: "And if it is absent from me?" He said: "Even if it is absent from you, as long as it has not become putrid, or you find on it a mark other than your arrow." He said: "Give me a ruling regarding the vessels of the Magians when we are compelled to use them." He said: "Wash them and eat from them."

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Al-Mundhiri in his "Mukhtasar": "So eat from what they have caught for you, whether slaughtered properly or not slaughtered properly." The wording of Ahmad and al-Daraqutni is: "If you have trained hunting dogs, then eat from what they have caught for you." He said: "O Messenger of Allah, slaughtered properly and not slaughtered properly?" He said: "Slaughtered properly and not slaughtered properly."

(1) See the preceding commentary.
(2) Authentic due to corroborating evidence, except for the mention of permitting eating from what the dog has eaten from, as it contradicts what is found in the Two Sahihs from the hadith of Adi ibn Hatim, which has preceded under numbers (2848) and (2854). Al-Bayhaqi in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" 9/238 declared it defective due to what Shu'bah ibn al-Hajjaj narrated from Abd Rabbih ibn Sa'id al-Ansari, from Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from a man of Hudhayl: that he asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about a dog that hunts, and he said: "Eat whether it has eaten or not." Ibn Hazm likewise declared it defective, saying that the narration of Amr from his father, from his grandfather is a "sahifah" (fabricated document), and what he used to declare it defective is not a valid defect.

Some people held the view of approving this hadith. Ibn Abd al-Hadi said in "Al-Tanqih" 3/372 and in "Al-Muharrar" (748): Its chain is authentic. Likewise, Ibn al-Mulaqqin declared its chain authentic in "Al-Badr al-Munir" 9/241. Ibn Kathir said in his "Tafsir" regarding the interpretation of His statement, the Exalted: {And what you have taught of hunting creatures} [Al-Ma'idah: 4]: Its chain is good. Those who held the view of authenticating both hadiths—the hadith of Adi ibn Hatim and this hadith—reconciled between them in a manner that removes the apparent contradiction, through the aspects previously mentioned in the hadith of Abu Tha'labah that preceded under number (2852).

Ahmad (6725), al-Daraqutni (4797), and al-Bayhaqi 9/237-238 and 243 narrated it via the path of Habib al-Mu'allim, with this chain.

Al-Nasa'i (4296) narrated it via the path of Abu Malik Ubaydullah ibn al-Akhnas, from Amr ibn Shu'ayb, with it, except that he said in his narration: "And if they kill," and he did not say: "And if it eats from it," and he did not mention the vessels of the Magians.

See what precedes it, and what will come under number (2861).