Hadith 16:
The shaykh, imam, scholar, and chief judge Shams al-Dīn Abū Muhammad Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Atā ibn Hasan al-Hanafī informed us, as it was read to him while I listened in 667 AH, together with Abū al-Abbās ibn Allān and Abū al-Abbās ibn Shaybān. They said:
Abū Alī Hanbal ibn Abd Allāh ibn al-Faraj al-Rusāfī informed us, as it was read to him: Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wāhid ibn al-Husayn al-Shaybānī informed us: Abū Alī al-Hasan ibn Alī ibn Muhammad ibn al-Madhhab al-Tamīmī informed us: Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn Ja‘far ibn Hamdān ibn Mālik al-Qatī‘ī informed us: Abū Abd al-Rahmān Abd Allāh, son of Imam Abū Abd Allāh Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal al-Shaybānī—may Allah be pleased with him—narrated to us: My father, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, narrated to me: Sufyān narrated to us, from Abd Allāh ibn Dīnār: I heard Umar say: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:
“Whoever keeps a dog—other than a dog for livestock or hunting—will have his reward reduced by two qirāts each day.”