We heard Abu Hurayrah narrating from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) who said: "The wound caused by a dumb animal is without liability, the mine is without liability, the well is without liability, and in the treasure (rikaz) there is the fifth (khums)." (1)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Sufyan: he is Ibn 'Uyaynah.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhari (1499) and (6912), Muslim (1710), Ibn Majah (2673), al-Tirmidhi (647) and (1431) and (1432), and al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (2286) and (2287) and (2288) and (5803) via the route of Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, from him. In some of their versions it comes from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab alone.

It was also recorded by Muslim (1710) via the route of al-Aswad ibn al-'Ala' from Abu Salamah alone, from him.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhari (2355) via the route of Abu Salih al-Samman, al-Bukhari (6913) and Muslim (1710) via the route of Muhammad ibn Ziyad, Muslim (1710) and al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (2287) via the route of 'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Utbah, al-Nasa'i (2289) and (5804) via the route of Muhammad ibn Sirin, and (5805) via the route of al-A'raj — all five of them from Abu Hurayrah.

It is also in Musnad Ahmad (7120) and Sahih Ibn Hibban (6005).

The mention of rikaz alone has already preceded with the author at number (3085).

Al-Khattabi said: "The wound caused by a dumb animal is without liability" — al-'ajma' (the dumb animal) is the beast. It is called 'ajma' because of its dumbness, and everyone who is unable to speak is a'jam (dumb).

The meaning of jubar is "without liability" (hadar). Its wound is only without liability when it is loose and running off on its own, having neither a leader nor a driver.

As for the well, it is that a man digs a well on his own property and a person falls into it — then it is without liability, and there is no guarantee upon him for it.

It may also be interpreted regarding the well that it is in the open deserts which a man digs and thereby revives the land through digging and bringing forth water, then a person falls into it, so it is without liability.

As for the mine, it is what a man extracts from the mines of gold, silver, and the like. He hires people to work in them, and perhaps it collapses upon some of them — he says: their blood is without liability, because they assisted against themselves, so blame is removed from the one who hired them.

We say: rikaz, according to the people of the Hijaz, is the buried treasures of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance in the earth, and according to the people of Iraq, it is the mines. Both opinions are possible in the language. This was stated in al-Nihayah.