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847. Abū Qatādah narrated that he was with the Prophet ﷺ and when he got to one of the roads of Makkah some of his companions were Muḥrim and he (Abū Qatādah) was not a Muḥrim. So he saw a wild donkey, so he mounted his horse, asked his companions to give him his whip but they refused, so he asked them to give him his spear and they refused. So he (himself) took it and struck the donkey killing it. Some of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ ate it and some of them refused. When they caught up to the Prophet ﷺ they asked him about that and he said: "It is only food which Allāh fed you." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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Why Abū Qatādah was not Muḥrim when he was accompanying the Prophet ﷺ? The scholars have given various answers to this question. The best and correct answer seems to be the narration of Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī. In this narration it is narrated that the Prophet ﷺ had sent Abū Qatādah to collect Zakāt and the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions were going to perform Umrah, on his way to Makkah Abū Qatādah met them at a place called Asfān, and there this incident took place.
