Abu Dawud said: Bahir is the son of Raysan.

Chapter 74: Disapproval of slaughtering animals at the grave

3222 - Yahya ibn Musa al-Balkhi narrated to us, Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, Ma'mar informed us, from Thabit, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There is no 'aqr in Islam."

Abd al-Razzaq said: They used to slaughter a cow or a sheep at the grave.

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= Ibn Raysan al-San'ani, and Hisham ibn Yusuf: he is al-San'ani. Ibn al-Mulaqqin in "al-Badr al-Munir" 5/331 quoted al-Mundhiri as saying that he deemed this hadith good (hasan).

It was also recorded by Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal in "al-Sunnah" (1425), and in his additions to his father's "Fada'il al-Sahabah" (773), al-Bazzar (445), Ibn al-Mundhir in "al-Awsat" 5/458, al-Hakim 1/370, al-Bayhaqi 4/56, al-Diya' al-Maqdisi in "al-Mukhtarah" (388), and al-Mizzi in the biography of Hani', the freed slave of Uthman, in "Tahdhib al-Kamal" 30/147-148, via the route of Hisham ibn Yusuf, with this chain of transmission.

(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic (sahih).

It is in the "Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq" (6690), and from his route it was recorded by Ahmad (13032), Abd ibn Humayd (1253), Ibn Hibban (3146), and al-Bayhaqi 4/57 and 9/314.

Al-Khattabi said: The people of the Jahiliyyah used to slaughter camels at the grave of a generous man, saying: We reward him for his deed, because he used to slaughter them during his life and feed the guests with them. So we slaughter them at his grave so that beasts and birds may eat them, and he may be a provider of food after his death just as he was a provider of food during his life. The poet said:

I slaughtered my she-camel at the grave of al-Najashi, with a white sharp sword that his polishers had refined, at the grave of one whom, had I died before him, my mounts would have been insignificant at my grave.

And some of them held the view in this matter that if his riding camel was slaughtered at his grave, he would be resurrected on the Day of Judgment riding, and whoever had no camel slaughtered on his behalf would be resurrected walking. This was according to the view of those among them who believed in resurrection after death.