Abī Kathīr narrated to me; Abū Qilābah al-Jarmī narrated to me; Anas ibn Mālik narrated to me, saying:

“Eight men from the tribe of ʿUkl came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, but they could not bear the climate of Medina (1). He therefore ordered them to go to the charity camels and drink their milk and urine. They went, killed the herders, and drove off the camels.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent trackers after them; they were brought back, and he had their hands and feet cut off, and he did not cauterise their wounds (2).”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī from “a man” on the authority of Shuʿayb (3).

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mardāwī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Asadī of Damascus informed us; my grandfather informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Faqīh informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Farrāʾ in Egypt narrated to us; Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sindī narrated to us; Fahd ibn Sulaymān narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Kathīr narrated to us; I heard al-Awzāʿī from Qatādah, from Anas, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Abū Bakr and ʿUmar: “These two are the chiefs of the mature men of Paradise from the earliest and the latest generations—apart from the prophets and the messengers.” (4)