“or its ritual slaughter.” In another narration of his: “Tanning a hide is equivalent to ritually slaughtering it.” Al-Dāraqutnī’s wording is exactly as given in the book. Al-Hākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī concurred!

I say: Its narrators are trustworthy narrators relied upon by the two Shaykhs, except Jawn ibn Qatādah, who is unknown. Ahmad and others said: “He is not known.” It does, however, have a corroborating report from ‘Ā’ishah, traced back to the Prophet, with the wording:

“Tanning the hide of a dead animal is equivalent to ritually slaughtering it.”

Al-Nasā’ī narrated it with an authentic chain. Another corroborating report comes from Ibn ‘Abbās, with the wording:

“Tanning every hide is equivalent to ritually slaughtering it.”

Al-Hākim narrated it (4/124) through Nu‘aym ibn Hammād, who said: Abū Usāmah narrated to us; Hammād ibn al-Sā’ib narrated to us; Ishāq ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Hārith narrated to us, saying: I heard Ibn ‘Abbās say: I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, say—and he then quoted it. Al-Hākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī concurred!

I say: Nu‘aym ibn Hammād is weak, and I do not know Hammād ibn al-Sā’ib; perhaps his name is a scribal corruption.

In al-Jāmi‘ al-Kabīr (2/33/2), the hadith is attributed to al-Hākim through ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Hārith. In al-Saghīr—the al-Fayd copy—the name appears as ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Hurayth. Al-Munāwī said: “It is the diminutive of Harth, spelled with the three-dotted letter thā’.” All of this is an error. Perhaps al-Suyūtī’s eye fell upon the name ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Hārith, who was the father of Ishāq—the narrator of the hadith from ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abbās—without noticing what came before or after it.

27—(In another narration: “Tanning it removes its impurity.” Narrated by al-Hākim.) p. 50

Weak with this wording. It was narrated by al-Hākim (1/161), and likewise by al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan