I say: Its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators. However, Ikrimah ibn Ammar was truthful but prone to error, and his reports from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir are inconsistent. Moreover, he did not possess a written book, as stated in al-Taqrib.

Ahmad also narrated it (3/335) through Ibn Lahi'ah: Abu al-Zubayr narrated to us from Jabir, in a brief report attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording: “He prohibited plundering.” Ibn Lahi'ah had poor retention, but Ibn Jurayj corroborated him, saying: Abu al-Zubayr said, with the wording: “Whoever plunders something openly is not of us.” It was narrated by Ahmad (3/380), Ibn Majah (3935), and al-Tahawi (2/130–131). Zuhayr ibn Mu'awiyah also corroborated him: Abu al-Zubayr narrated to us the same report. Thus, the hidden defect is Abu al-Zubayr’s ambiguous use of the transmission formula “from.”

Note: khulsah, with a dammah on its first letter, is that which is taken by force and confrontation, as stated in al-Nihayah. This is how it occurs in the aforementioned hadith of Zayd ibn Khalid, in Ahmad’s Musnad at the two locations cited. In al-Jami' al-Saghir, however, it appears as khalisah, on the pattern of fa'ilah in the sense of something acted upon: that which is taken from a beast of prey and dies before it can be ritually slaughtered. This wording was narrated in the hadith of Wahb ibn Khalid al-Himsi: Umm Habibah bint al-Irbad told me that her father told her that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, prohibited on the day of Khaybar every bird with talons, the flesh of domesticated donkeys, the khalisah, animals tethered as targets, and having intercourse with captive women until they deliver what is in their wombs. It was narrated by Ahmad (4/127), al-Tirmidhi (1/279), and al-Hakim (2/135), who said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

I say: This Umm Habibah is unknown, as al-Dhahabi himself indicated by his statement in al-Mizan: