11 - Description of the Dogs That Were Commanded to Be Killed

4280 - ‘Imrān ibn Mūsā informed us, saying: Yazīd ibn Zuray‘ narrated to us, saying: Yūnus narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, from ‘Abdullāh ibn Mughaffal, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Were it not that dogs are a community among the communities [of creatures], I would have commanded that they be killed. So kill from among them the pure black one. And any people who keep a dog that is not a dog for farming, hunting, or herding livestock, then one qīrāṭ is deducted from their reward every day."

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= Number (4772).

Also recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1488) from Qutaybah, with this chain of transmission. And he added at its end: It was said to him: "Indeed, Abū Hurayrah used to say: 'Or a dog for crops.'" He said: "Indeed, Abū Hurayrah had crops."

Also recorded — with the aforementioned addition — by Muslim (1571) from Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, from Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from him. And the two preceding narrations are to be consulted.

(1) In (M): "or livestock, deducted," with a variant above it as recorded.
(2) In (R): "their rewards," and in (M): "their reward."
(3) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Ḥasan — and he is Ibn Yasār al-Baṣrī — heard from ‘Abdullāh ibn Mughaffal, as transmitted by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in "al-Marāsīl," p. 45, from Imam Aḥmad, and he explicitly affirmed his hearing from him in Ibn Ḥibbān (5656) and Aḥmad (20564). ‘Imrān ibn Mūsā: he is al-Qazzāz al-Laythī, and Yūnus: he is Ibn ‘Ubayd. And it is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (4773).

Also recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2845) and Ibn Ḥibbān (5657) via the path of Musaddad, from Yazīd ibn Zuray‘, with this chain of transmission, and the narration of Abū Dāwūd is abridged to its first portion.

Also recorded — in full and abridged — by Aḥmad (16788) and (20571), al-Tirmidhī (1486), Ibn Mājah (3205), and Ibn Ḥibbān (5650) and (5655) via multiple paths from Yūnus ibn ‘Ubayd, from him. And al-Tirmidhī said: A ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth.

Also recorded — likewise — by Aḥmad (20547) and (20548) and (20562) (20564) and (20576), al-Tirmidhī (1486) and (1489), and the author in "al-Kubrā" (4781), and Ibn Ḥibbān (5656) from =