‘Abd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from him, traced back to the Prophet with similar wording. Ibn Abī Hātim said: “My father said: ‘This is an objectionable hadith.’”

I say: This al-‘Umarī is weak, although some scholars declared him trustworthy. Allah knows best.

Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī also narrated from Shahr ibn Hawshab, from Tamīm al-Dārī, traced back to the Prophet, with the wording:

“There will be people near the end of time who slice off the humps of camels and cut off the tails of sheep. Take heed: whatever is severed from a living animal is carrion.”

It was narrated by Ibn Mājah (3217).

I say: However, Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī is abandoned, as stated in al-Taqrīb, and therefore cannot be used as supporting evidence. Shahr is also weak.

42 — (Abū al-Dardā’, may Allah be pleased with him, was asked about a ram that had been slaughtered for a church called “Jirjis” and presented to it: “May we eat from it?” Abū al-Dardā’ replied to the questioner: “O Allah, pardon us! They are, after all, People of the Book: their food is lawful for us, and our food is lawful for them.” He instructed him to eat it.) p. 60

Authentic. Al-Tabarī narrated it in his Tafsīr (6/66): Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Mu‘āwiyah related to me, from Abū al-Zāhiriyyah Hudayr ibn Kurayb, from Abū al-Aswad, from ‘Umayr ibn al-Aswad, who asked Abū al-Dardā’ about a ram—and the rest of the report.

I say: This chain of transmission is authentic, Allah Most High willing. All its narrators are trustworthy and among Muslim’s narrators. ‘Umayr ibn al-Aswad—also said to have been named ‘Amr ibn al-Aswad—was Abū ‘Iyād al-‘Ansī al-Hamdānī al-Dimashqī. Ibn Sa‘d and others treated them as two separate men. Al-Hāfiz Ibn ‘Asākir said in his biographical notice: