69 – Jabir ibn Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) related: “A man asked the Prophet ﷺ, ‘Should I perform ablution after eating the meat of sheep and goats?’ He replied, ‘If you wish.’ The man then asked, ‘Must I perform ablution after eating camel meat?’ He said, ‘Yes.’” Recorded by Muslim (1).

Vocabulary of the ḥadith
• al-ghanam: a collective noun for a flock of goats and sheep. It is grammatically feminine, has no singular of the same form, and its plural is aghnām. The animal is so named because it lacks defensive means, making it easy prey.
• al-ibil: camels, whether male or female. Likewise a feminine collective noun with no singular of the same form; its plural is ābāl.
• “Should I perform ablution after eating the meat of sheep and goats?” – the interrogative hamzah at the beginning is omitted; the original would read: a-atawaḍḍaʾ …
• “from the meat of sheep” – i.e. on account of having eaten it.
• “Yes” – its explanation has already been given under ḥadith no. 60.

Points derived from the ḥadith
1 – Renewing ablution after eating the meat of sheep and goats is permissible but not obligatory, because such meat does not nullify ablution.
2 – Eating camel meat breaks ablution, so one must renew it before prayer and any act for which purity is required.
3 – The well-known view in the Ḥanbalī school is that the only part of the camel that nullifies ablution is the haḇr, i.e. the actual flesh.