Shaykh, Imām, erudite scholar, and Chief Judge Shams al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭāʾ ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥanafī narrated to us—this was read to him while I was present in 667 AH—together with Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAllān and Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Shaybān, and they said:
Abū ʿAlī Ḥanbal ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faraj al-Raṣāfī narrated to us, upon a reading before him; he said: Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Ḥuṣayn al-Shaybānī informed us; he said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mudhhib al-Tamīmī informed us; he said: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān ibn Mālik al-Qaṭīʿī narrated to us; he said: Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh, the son of the Imām Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal al-Shaybānī—may Allah be pleased with him—narrated to us; he said: My father Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad narrated to me; he said: Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, who said: I heard ʿUmar say:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“Whoever keeps a dog—other than a dog for herding livestock or a dog for hunting—will have two qīrāṭs deducted from his reward every single day.”