3422 - Abdullah ibn Maslamah al-Qa'nabi narrated to us, from Malik, from Ibn Shihab, from Ibn Muhayyisah, from his father: that he asked the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for permission regarding the hire of a cupper, and he forbade him from it. He kept asking him and seeking his permission until he commanded him: "Feed it to your watering camel and your slaves."(1)

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It was also recorded by Muslim (1568), al-Tirmidhi (1322), and al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (4668) and (4669) via multiple chains from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, with this chain of transmission. However, al-Nasa'i in the second place inverted the name Ibrahim ibn Abdullah to: Abdullah ibn Ibrahim, and the correct version is the first.

It was also recorded by Muslim (1568) and al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (4663) via the path of Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan, from Muhammad ibn Yusuf, the son of the sister of Nimr, and al-Nasa'i (4665) via the path of Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn Khusayfah, both from al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid.

It was also recorded by al-Nasa'i (4664) via the path of Hatim ibn Isma'il, from Muhammad ibn Yusuf, the son of the sister of Nimr, from al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said. Thus he made it part of the musnad of al-Sa'ib, and al-Sa'ib was a young Companion, and that does not affect the soundness of the hadith, because at most it would be a mursal of a Companion, and the mursal reports of the Companions are authoritative.

It is also in Musnad Ahmad (15812) and Sahih Ibn Hibban (5152).

See what follows it for an explanation of the fiqh of the hadith.

(1) A sound hadith, and this chain of transmission has trustworthy narrators, but there is a difference of opinion regarding al-Zuhri concerning whether it is connected or interrupted, as is clarified in al-Musnad (23690), (23692), (23693), and (23695). The most authentic of its paths is what Muhammad ibn Ishaq and Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah narrated, from al-Zuhri, from Haram ibn Sa'd - or Sa'idah - ibn Muhayyisah, from his father, from his grandfather. Ibn 'Abd al-Barr said in al-Tamhid 11/79: "This hadith is not connected from Ibn Shihab except through this narration of Ibn Ishaq, and the narration of Ibn 'Uyaynah is similar to it."

It is in Muwatta' Malik according to the narration of Abu Mus'ab al-Zuhri (2053), and from his path al-Tirmidhi recorded it (1323).

It is in al-Muwatta' according to the narration of Yahya al-Laythi 2/974, from Ibn Shihab, from Ibn Muhayyisah, that he asked the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for permission... and he mentioned it. Yahya al-Laythi was not followed on this by any of the narrators of al-Muwatta'.