“May Allah curse whoever has done this.” He then forbade branding the face and striking the face.”

Muslim and Ibn Ḥibbān (2003–2005) recorded it—the latter’s wording is cited here—as did Abū Dāwūd (2564), whose version reads: “Has it not reached you that I have cursed whoever brands an animal on its face or strikes it on its face?” He then forbade that.

It has another corroborating report from Anas, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, saw a donkey branded on its face and said…” He then mentioned the above. Al-Bazzār recorded it (p. 249, al-Zawāʾid) with an authentic chain, as its abridger stated.

2150 — “I recited Surat al-Raḥmān to the jinn on the Night of the Jinn, and they responded better than you did. Whenever I came to the words, ‘Which of your Lord’s favors will you both deny?’ they said: ‘We deny none of Your favors, our Lord; all praise belongs to You.’”

Al-Tirmidhī recorded it in his Sunan (2/234), through Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came out to his Companions and recited Surat al-Raḥmān to them from beginning to end. They remained silent, so he said the words quoted above.

Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a singular hadith. We know it only through the narration of al-Walīd ibn Muslim from Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad. Ibn Ḥanbal said: It appears that the Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad encountered in Syria is not the one from whom reports are narrated in Iraq; he seems to be another man whose name they confused—meaning, because of the objectionable reports they narrate from him. And I heard Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī say: ‘The people of Syria narrate objectionable reports from Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, whereas the people of Iraq narrate reasonably sound hadiths from him.’”