185 - ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr informed us, saying: ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, saying: Shuʿayb narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, who said:
I heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: The last of the two matters from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was the abandonment of ablution for what had been touched by fire.(1)
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= Also narrated by Aḥmad (3464) from ʿAbd al-Razzāq and Muḥammad ibn Bakr, from Ibn Jurayj, from Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, that he heard Ibn ʿAbbās and saw Abū Hurayrah performing ablution, so he said: Do you know from what I am performing ablution… and he mentioned the ḥadīth.
Also narrated by Mālik 1/25 – and via his chain Aḥmad (1988), al-Bukhārī (207), Muslim (354), Abū Dāwūd (187), the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (4673), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1143) and (1144) – from Zayd ibn Aslam, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from Ibn ʿAbbās, with it, and its wording is: …he ate a sheep's shoulder… except in Aḥmad, whose wording is: …he ate a shoulder. Ibn Ḥibbān titled the ḥadīth with his saying: The mention of the clarification that the shoulder which the Chosen One, peace and blessings be upon him, ate without performing ablution from it was only that of a sheep, not a camel's shoulder.
And there has preceded, in the commentary on the ḥadīth before it, the mention of the narration of the ḥadīth by ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār from Umm Salamah, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr cited in al-Tamhīd 3/329 these two narrations of ʿAṭāʾ and said: This is not a discrepancy concerning ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār in the chain of transmission; they are two sound ḥadīths.
(1) Its chain of transmission is sound; Shuʿayb: he is Ibn Abī Ḥamzah, and it is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (188).
Also narrated by Abū Dāwūd (192) and Ibn Ḥibbān (1134) via the path of ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh, with this chain of transmission.
Abū Ḥātim said – as in the ʿIlal of his son 1/64: This ḥadīth has a disordered text; it is only that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, ate a shoulder and did not perform ablution. Thus did the trustworthy narrators narrate it from Ibn al-Munkadir from Jābir. And it is possible that Shuʿayb narrated it from memory and erred in it.
And Abū Dāwūd said following the ḥadīth: This is an abridgment of the first ḥadīth. End quote. Meaning the ḥadīth of Jābir to which Abū Ḥātim referred, and he cited a portion of it with its meaning, and Abū Dāwūd had narrated it before it.
And Ibn Ḥibbān said following the ḥadīth: This is an abridged report from a long ḥadīth, which Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah abridged, mistakenly supposing the abrogation of the obligation of ablution for what had been touched by fire absolutely, whereas it is only the abrogation of the obligation of ablution for what had been touched by fire, excluding camel meat.
Al-Bukhārī has narrated (5457) from Jābir, may Allah be pleased with him, that he was asked about ablution for what had been touched by fire, and he said: No. In the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, we did not find such food except rarely, and when we did find it, we had no napkins except our palms, forearms, and feet, then we would pray without performing ablution. =