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1793. Jābir narrated: "The
Messenger of Allāh ﷺ allowed us to eat horse meat, and he forbade us from eating donkey meat.” (Sahih)
[He said:] There is something on this topic from Asmā’ bint Abī Bakr. Abū ‘Eisā said: This Hadīth is Hasan Sahih. This is how it was reported by more than one narrator; from ‘Amr bin Dīnār from Jābir. Hammād bin Zaid reported it from ‘Amr bin Dīnār from Muḥammad bin ‘Alī, from Jābir. The narration of Ibn ‘Uyainah (no. 1793) is more correct. He said: I heard Muḥammad saying: “Sufyān bin ‘Uyainah is better at memorizing than Hammād bin Zaid.”
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The vast majority of scholars — past and present — allow the eating of horse meat. The same is the opinion of the two Imām, Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad. Ibrāhīm An-Nakha’ī and Hammād bin Abī Sulaimān also hold the same opinion. Imām Abū Ḥanīfah and Mālik consider it disliked. Not only this, Imām Abū Ḥanīfah considers it a sin to eat it.
