The six of them said:
ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā informed us; then Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Fārisī did so in the year 469 AH; then Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ al-Anṣārī, followed by Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī. Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Mūsā dictated to us in the year 227 AH, and Layth ibn Saʿd related it, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar,
from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, that he stood and said:
“None of you may milk another person’s livestock without his permission. Would any of you like someone to come to his water-container, break the door of his storeroom, and carry off his food? The udders of their animals are nothing but the storehouses of their provisions. Therefore, let no one milk another man’s livestock without his consent.”
It was recorded by Muslim (1) through Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, from Layth.
Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Zabīdī told us: Abū Qurra narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from Mālik, from Nāfiʿ,
from Ibn ʿUmar, traced back to the Prophet: “Fruit is not to be sold until its soundness becomes evident (2).”
ʿAlī ibn Taymiyyah informed us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf did likewise; and al-Abrūqūhī likewise. Ibn Taymiyyah the preacher transmitted to us, saying:
Ibn al-Baṭṭī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makhlad narrated to us; al-Ramādī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; Ibn Jurayj informed us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Mālik, from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qusayṭ, from Ibn al-Musayyib,
that ʿUmar and ʿUthmān—