On the authority of Abu Tha‘labah al-Khushani, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who said: "If you shoot at game and then find it after three nights with your arrow in it, then eat it, as long as it has not gone bad."(1)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Ibn Hazm declared it defective in *Al-Muhalla* 7/463 due to Mu‘awiyah ibn Salih, but that is not a defect, because Mu‘awiyah ibn Salih — who is Ibn Hudayr al-Hadrami — was declared trustworthy by the leading scholars, and no one criticized him except Yahya al-Qattan. Moreover, he has a corroborating narrator.

It was also recorded by Muslim (1931) and al-Nasa’i (4303) via the chain of Mu‘awiyah ibn Salih, with this chain of transmission.

It was also recorded by Muslim (1931) via the chain of Abu al-Zahiriyyah, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, with it.

It was also recorded by him (1931) via the chain of Mak-hul, from Abu Tha‘labah. Al-Hafiz Rashid al-Din al-‘Attar said in *Ghurar al-Fawa’id*, p. 233: "There is some question regarding Mak-hul's hearing from Abu Tha‘labah, except that Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) cited this hadith of Abu Tha‘labah through chains of established continuity, namely his saying (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): 'If you shoot with your arrow and it disappears from you, then you find it, eat it as long as it has not gone bad.' Muslim alone recorded it, not al-Bukhari."

And Allah is the Granter of success.

It is also in *Musnad Ahmad* (17744).

See also al-Khattabi's discussion on the jurisprudence of the hadith at hadith number (2857).

Note: This hadith appears in copies (A), (B), and (C) following hadith (2845) in the chapter on keeping a dog for hunting and other purposes, and it appears in copy (E) following hadith (2857). Al-Hafiz indicated in his copy, which we have symbolized as (A), that this hadith is not in the narration of Ibn Dasah, even though our copy (E) is according to the narration of Ibn Dasah and the hadith is firmly established therein, except that it appears later than its position in the narration of al-Lu’lu’i. We have left it in the order in which it appears in the copy of al-‘Azim Abadi and al-Saharnafuri.