160 – They unanimously agree—may Allah have mercy on them—on what is firmly established in the Prophetic report concerning the five creatures (1) the pilgrim in ihram is allowed to kill. Al-Nakhaʿī alone dissented, prohibiting the killing of the mouse (2).
161 – They unanimously agree that if a beast of prey harms the pilgrim in ihram and he kills it, no liability falls upon him (3).
162 – They unanimously agree that the pilgrim in ihram is permitted to kill the wolf (4).
163 – They unanimously agree that the pilgrim in ihram may bathe to remove major ritual impurity. Mālik alone held that it is disliked for the pilgrim in ihram to immerse his head in water (5).
164 – They unanimously agree that the pilgrim in ihram may use the siwak.
165 – They unanimously agree that the pilgrim in ihram may eat oil, ghee, and animal fat.
166 – They unanimously agree that the pilgrim in ihram may apply oil to his body, except to his head.
167 – They unanimously agree that the pilgrim in ihram may enter the bathhouse.
(1) Omitted in MS T.
(2) Al-Nakhai is Ibrahim b. Yazid (may Allah have mercy on him). Ibn Abi Shayba records this statement in his Musannaf, 4/439, with an authentic chain of transmission.
(3) Zufar, the Hanafi jurist, disagreed on this point; see al-Mabsut, 4/92.
(4) Ibn Abi Shayba (Musannaf 4/512), Abd al-Razzaq (Musannaf 4/92) and Abu Dawud (al-Marasil, 137) report from Said b. al-Musayyab that the Messenger of Allah said: “The muhrim (pilgrim in a state of ihram) is to kill the wolf.” This is a mursal report and therefore weak. Ahmad (Musnad 2/30) and al-Daraqutni (Sunan 2/332) transmit it with a connected chain through al-Hajjaj b. Artat, from Wabra, who said: “I heard Ibn Umar say: The Messenger of Allah commanded the muhrim to kill the wolf.” This chain is also weak.
Ibn Abi Shayba (Musannaf 4/512) records, with sound chains, that Ata, al-Hasan and Qabisa b. Dhuayb considered it permissible for a muhrim to kill a wolf.
Al-Tahawi, however, maintained in Sharh al-Maani, 2/165, that the muhrim is not allowed to kill the wolf. The Hanafi school understands the phrase “the vicious dog” in the well-known hadith to mean the wolf; see al-Inaya Sharh al-Hidaya, 3/83, and Fath al-Qadir, 3/82.
(5) See al-Mudawwana, 1/396.