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1472. Jābir bin 'Abdullāh narrated that a man from his people hunted a rabbit or two and slaughtered them with Marwah. Then he hung them up until he met the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, so he asked him about that, and he ﷺ told him to eat them. (Ḥasan)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Muḥammad bin Ṣafwān, Rāfi', and 'Adī bin Ḥātīm.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] Some of the people of knowledge permitted slaughtering with Marwah, and they did not see any harm in eating rabbits. This is the view of most of the people of knowledge. Some of them disliked eating rabbits.
The companions of Ash-Sha'bi conflicted in reporting this Ḥadīth. Dāwūd bin Abī Hind reported it from Ash-Sha'bi, "from Muḥammad bin Ṣafwān." While 'Āsim Al-Aḥwal reported from Ash-Sha'bi, "from Ṣafwān bin Muḥammad, or, Muḥammad bin Ṣafwān." Muḥammad bin Ṣafwān is more correct.
Jābir Al-Ju'fi reported it from Ash-Sha'bi, "from Jābir bin 'Abdullāh" and it is similar to the narration of Qatādah from Ash-Sha'bi (no. 1472). This implies that Ash-Sha'bi reported it from all of
them. Muḥammad said: "The Hadīth of Ash-Sha'bi from Jābir is not preserved."
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Footnotes
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[1] In Hādī As-Sārī Ibn Hajar says that it is a sharp stone after which the mountain across from Ṣafā was named. In Tuhfat Al-Aḥwadhi it is given the additional description of being "white."
Commentary
Most scholars and all Four A'immah say that eating rabbit meat is lawful, and it is allowed to hunt it with a sharp stone. (Sharh Muslim by An-Nawawi v. 2. p.152 and (Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi v. 2. p343.)
