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4623. Narrated Sa'īd bin Al-Mūsaiyab: 'Bahīra' was a she-camel whose milk used to be spared for the idols and nobody was allowed to milk it; 'Sā'iba' was a she-camel which they (i.e., infidels) let loose for free pasture for their false gods (i.e., idols etc.) and nothing was allowed to be carried on it. Abū Hurairah said: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "I saw 'Amr bin 'Āmir Al-Khuzā'ī (in a dream) dragging his intestines in the Fire, and he was the person who established the tradition of setting freed animals (for the sake of their false deities)". 'Waṣila' was a she-camel set free for idols because it has given birth to a she-camel at its first delivery, and then again gave birth to a she-camel as its second delivery. People (in the Pre-Islāmic Period of Ignorance) used to let that she-camel loose for their idols if it gave birth to two she-camels successively without giving birth to a male camel in between. 'Hām' was a stallion-camel freed from work for their (1) (Ch. 13) See the meanings of these terms in the following Hadīth (No. 4623). idols, after it has finished a number of copulations assigned for it. They would let it loose for their idols and excuse it from burdens so that nothing would be carried on it, and they called it 'Al-Hāmi.' Abū Hurairah said, "I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying so."