1156 – Ibn ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the jallalah and its milk.” Recorded by the Four, except al-Nasaʾi, and al-Tirmidhi graded it sound (ḥasan). (1)
Status of the ḥadith
The ḥadith is ḥasan.
It was transmitted by Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Mājah, and al-Bayhaqī through the chain of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid. All its narrators are trustworthy, though there is some variation in what was related through Ibn Abī Najīḥ. Al-Bayhaqī also reported it by another route, from Ayyūb, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar.
Al-Tirmidhi deemed it ḥasan because it has supporting narrations that strengthen it—coming from Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and Abū Hurayrah.
The report of Ibn ʿAbbās was collected by Aḥmad and the Four; Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd declared it ṣaḥīḥ, and Ibn Ḥajar rated it ḥasan.
The report of Ibn ʿAmr was narrated by Aḥmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasaʾi, and al-Ḥākim.
The report of Abū Hurayrah was related by al-Ḥākim and al-Bayhaqī, and its chain is strong.
Vocabulary of the ḥadith
• al-Jallalah: an emphatic form referring to any animal that habitually eats dung, excrement, or other filth—whether it be a camel, cow, sheep, chicken, or any other normally edible animal or bird.