and Ahmad (2/162 and 192), from al-Walid ibn Abdullah, from Yusuf ibn Mahik, from Abdullah ibn Amr, who said: “I used to write down everything I heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, wishing to preserve it. But Quraysh forbade me, saying, ‘Do you write down everything, when the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, is a human being who speaks in anger and in contentment?’ So I stopped writing, and mentioned this to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He pointed with his finger toward his mouth and then spoke the words cited above.”

Al-Hakim said: “Both of them have cited as authorities every narrator in this hadith except this al-Walid. I think he is al-Walid ibn Abi al-Walid al-Shami, for he is al-Walid ibn Abdullah, and his father’s kunyah came to supersede his name. If that is so, Muslim cited him as an authority.” This is what he said, but he is in fact al-Walid ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Mughith, a Hijazi client of Banu al-Dar. He was trustworthy, as Ibn Ma'in and Ibn Hibban stated.

1533 — “Its milk is a cure, its ghee is a medicine, and its meat is a disease”—meaning cattle.

Al-Baghawi narrated it in Hadith Ali ibn al-Ja'd (11/122/1), through Zuhayr—meaning Ibn Mu'awiyah—from his wife, whom he described as truthful. She heard Mulaykah bint Umar—who, he mentioned, used to bring the sheep back to their owners during the rule of Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him—that she applied cow’s ghee as treatment for an ailment she had, and said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said,” then cited it.

I say: This chain is good, Allah willing. Abu Dawud also recorded it in al-Marasil, al-Tabarani in al-Kabir, Ibn Mandah in al-Ma'rifah, and Abu Nu'aym in al-Tibb, in similar wording, as stated in al-Maqasid al-Hasanah. Its author said (331): “Its narrators are trustworthy, but the female narrator from Mulaykah has not been named. Yet Zuhayr ibn Mu'awiyah, one of the hadith masters, who narrated from her, described her as truthful and as his wife. Abu Dawud’s inclusion of it in his al-Marasil was apparently due to his uncertainty as to whether Mulaykah had been a Companion; however, a group of scholars decisively affirmed her Companionship. It also has supporting reports from Ibn Mas'ud, attributed to the Prophet:”