78 - What is Permissible for the Muḥrim to Eat of Game

2816 - Qutaybah informed us, from Mālik, from Abū al-Naḍr, from Nāfiʿ, the freed slave of Abū Qatādah,
from Abū Qatādah, that he was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, until when they were on part of the road to Makkah, he lagged behind with some companions of his who were muḥrimūn (in iḥrām), while he himself was not in iḥrām. He saw a wild donkey, so he mounted his horse, then asked his companions to hand him his whip, but they refused. He asked them for his spear, but they refused, so he took it himself, then charged at the donkey and killed it. Some of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ ate from it, while others refused. They then caught up with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him about that. He said: "It is merely a meal that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, fed to you."

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= And Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā and Muḥammad ibn Bashshār ... from Shuʿbah, raised to the Prophet (marfūʿan), and the shortening of the chain by those of the narrators who shorten it does not affect what the ḥuffāẓ (reliable memorizers) have established, and Allah, Mighty and Majestic, knows best.

Aḥmad also narrated it with similar wording (2287) and (2348), and al-Tirmidhī narrated it in abbreviated form (932) via the route of Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, from Mujāhid, from him. In the first narration of Aḥmad, there is mention of ʿAlī's entering iḥrām while he had his sacrificial animal with him, and al-Tirmidhī said: A ḥasan ḥadīth.

And look at the two preceding ḥadīths before it, and what will come under numbers (2870) and (2871).

Al-Sindī said: His statement: "ʿUmrah has entered into Ḥajj" — whoever permits the dissolution (of iḥrām) says: the intention of ʿumrah has entered into the intention of Ḥajj, such that whoever intends Ḥajj may validly complete it by means of ʿumrah. And whoever does not permit dissolution says: it became lawful in the months of Ḥajj and was valid, meaning: it entered into the time and months of Ḥajj, and what the people of the Jāhiliyyah held — that ʿumrah was not permissible in the months of Ḥajj — became void. Or: the acts of ʿumrah entered into the acts of Ḥajj, so that the qārin (one performing Ḥajj and ʿumrah together) is not obligated except a single iḥrām and a single ṭawāf, and so on. And whoever does not hold ʿumrah to be obligatory says: the meaning is that its obligation fell away by virtue of Ḥajj, as if it had entered into it. And some of the possibilities are not suited to the context, and Allah, the Exalted, knows best.

(1) In the margin of (K): the road. (variant reading).
(2) In the margin of (K): with him. (variant reading).
(3) Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ. Abū al-Naḍr: he is Sālim, the freed slave of ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allah, and Nāfiʿ, the freed slave of Abū Qatādah: he is Abū Muḥammad Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbbās. And it is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (3784). =