a male ibn labūn (a male camel that has completed two years). If the number increases by one camel, then a bint labūn (a female camel that has completed two years) is due, until they reach forty-five. If it increases by one camel, then a ḥiqqah (a female camel that has completed three years) is due, until they reach sixty. If it increases by one camel, then a jadhaʿah (a female camel that has completed four years) is due, until they reach seventy-five. If it increases by one camel, then two bint labūns are due, until they reach ninety. If it increases by one camel, then two ḥiqqahs are due, until they reach one hundred and twenty. Thereafter, for every fifty, a ḥiqqah is due, and for every forty, a bint labūn.”

Ibn Mājah narrated it, no. 1799: Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn Khuwaylid al-Naysābūrī narrated to us; Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sulamī narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmārah, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it—then he cited the above.

I say: This chain of transmission is acceptable as corroborative evidence. All of its narrators are trustworthy transmitters used by al-Bukhārī, apart from this Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “He was truthful; he narrated some hadiths from memory and erred in some of them.” I say: This does not appear to be one of them, for it agrees with the beginning of Anas’s lengthy hadith concerning the taxable thresholds for camels and sheep recorded by al-Bukhārī. It has been referenced in al-Irwāʾ (792).

Hadith vocabulary: Bint makhāḍ: makhāḍ is a term for pregnant she-camels; its singular is khilfah. A bint makhāḍ or ibn makhāḍ is a camel that has entered its second year, because its mother has reached the age of pregnancy, even if she is not actually pregnant. Ibn labūn: one that has completed two years, whose mother has become milk-producing by giving birth. Ḥiqqah: one that has completed three years. Jadhaʿah: one that has completed four years.