in ihrām.” (1) The two Sahīh collections (2) report that he presented him with a wild ass; one wording in Muslim (3) reads: “the meat of an ass.”

Al-Humaydī said: Sufyān used to relate the hadith with the wording, “I presented the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) with the meat of a wild ass.” Sometimes Sufyān would add, “dripping with blood,” and sometimes he would omit this. Earlier, he would sometimes say, “a wild ass,” but later he settled on “meat” and continued using that wording until his death (4).

One version (5) reads, “half of a wild ass,” and another (6), “the leg of a wild ass.”

Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd narrated from Ja‘far ibn ‘Amr (7) ibn Umayyah al-Damrī, from his father, that al-Sa‘b (8) presented the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) with the hindquarters of an ass while he was at al-Juhfah. He ate some of it, as did the others (9). Al-Bayhaqī said: This is an authentic chain of transmission. If this report has been accurately preserved, it would appear that he returned the live animal and accepted the meat.

Al-Shāfi‘ī said (10): If al-Sa‘b ibn Jaththāmah presented the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) with the ass