Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

In the evening of the day of the conquest of Khaibar, the army made fires (for cooking). The Prophet (ﷺ)
said, “For what have you made these fires?” They said, “For cooking the meat of domestic donkeys.”
He said, “Throw away what is in the cooking pots and break the pots.” A man from the people got up
and said, “Shall we throw the contents of the cooking pots and then wash the pots (instead of breaking
them)?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Yes, you can do either.’

We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) in Dhul-Hulaifa and there the people were struck with severe hunger. Then
we got camels and sheep as war booty (and slaughtered them). The Prophet (ﷺ) was behind all the people.
The people hurried and fixed the cooking pots (for cooking) but the Prophet (ﷺ) came there and ordered
that the cooking pots be turned upside down. Then he distributed the animals, regarding ten sheep as
equal to one camel. One of the camels ran away and there were a few horses with the people. They
chased the camel but they got tired, whereupon a man shot it with an arrow whereby Allah stopped it.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Among these animals some are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them runs away
from you, treat it in this way.” I said. “We hope, or we are afraid that tomorrow we will meet the
enemy and we have no knives, shall we slaughter (our animals) with canes?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If the
killing tool causes blood to gush out and if Allah’s Name is mentioned, eat (of the slaughterer animal).
But do not slaughter with a tooth or a nail. I am telling you why: A tooth is a bone, and the nail is the
knife of Ethiopians.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said that he met Zaid bin `Amr Nufail at a place near Baldah and this had happened
before Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) received the Divine Inspiration. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) presented a dish of meat (that
had been offered to him by the pagans) to Zaid bin `Amr, but Zaid refused to eat of it and then said (to
the pagans), “I do not eat of what you slaughter on your stonealtars (Ansabs) nor do I eat except that
on which Allah’s Name has been mentioned on slaughtering.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent us as an army unit of three hundred warriors under the command of Abu ‘Ubaida to
ambush a caravan of the Quraish. But we were struck with such severe hunger that we ate the Khabt
(desert bushes), so our army was called the Army of the Khabt. Then the sea threw a huge fish called
Al-`Anbar and we ate of it for half a month and rubbed our bodies with its fat till our bodies became
healthy. Then Abu Ubaida took one of its ribs and fixed it over the ground and a rider passed
underneath it. There was a man amongst us who slaughtered three camels when hunger became
severe, and he slaughtered three more, but after that Abu ‘Ubaida forbade him to do so.

We participated with the Prophet (ﷺ) in six or seven Ghazawat, and we used to eat locusts with him.

I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! We are living in the land of the people of the
Scripture, and we take our meals in their utensils, and there is game in that land and I hunt with my
bow and with my trained hound and with my untrained hound.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “As for your saying
that you are in the land of people of the Scripture, you should not eat in their utensils unless you find
no alternative, in which case you must wash the utensils and then eat in them As for your saying that
you are in the land of game, if you hunt something with your bow, mention Allah’s Name (while
hunting the game) and eat; and if you hunt something with your trained hound, mention Allah’s Name
on sending and eat; and if you hunt something with your untrained hound and get it alive, slaughter it
and you can eat of it.”

(the same Hadith above, but he added); The Prophet (ﷺ) asked, “Is there any of its meat left with you?”

I was with the Prophet (on a journey) between Mecca and Medina, and all of them, (i.e. the Prophet (ﷺ)
and his companions) were in the state of Ihram, while I was not in that state. I was riding my horse
and I used to be fond of ascending mountains. So while I was doing so I noticed that the people were
looking at something. I went to see what it was, and behold it was an onager. I asked my companions,
“What is that?” They said, “We do not know.” I said, “It is an onager.’ They said, “It is what you have
seen.” I had left my whip, so I said to them, “Hand to me my whip.” They said, “We will not help you
in that (in hunting the onager).” I got down, took my whip and chased the animal (on my horse) and
did not stop till I killed it. I went to them and said, “Come on, carry it!” But they said, “We will not
even touch it.” At last I alone carried it and brought it to them. Some of them ate of it and some
refused to eat of it. I said (to them), “I will ask the Prophet (ﷺ) about it (on your behalf).” When I met the
Prophet, I told him the whole story. He said to me, “Has anything of it been left with you?” I said,
“Yes.” He said, “Eat, for it is a meal Allah has offered to you.”

We went out in a campaign and the army was called The Army of the Khabt, and Abu ‘Ubaida was
our commander. We were struck with severe hunger. Then the sea threw a huge dead fish called Al-
`Anbar, the like of which had never been seen. We ate of it for half a month, and then Abu ‘Ubaida
took one of its bones (and made an arch of it) so that a rider could easily pass under it.

I came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! We are living in the land of the people of the
Scripture and we take our meals in their utensils, and in the land there is game and I hunt with my bow
and trained or untrained hounds; please tell me what is lawful for us of that.” He said, “As for your
saying that you are living in the land of the people of the Scripture and that you eat in their utensils, if
you can get utensils other than theirs, do not eat in their utensils, but if you do not find (other than
theirs), then wash their utensils and eat in them. As for your saying that you are in the land of game, if
you hung something with your bow, and have mentioned Allah’s Name while hunting, then you can
eat (the game). And if you hunt something with your trained hound, and have mentioned Allah’s
Name on sending it for hunting then you can eat (the game). But if you hunt something with your
untrained hound and you were able to slaughter it before its death, you can eat of it.”