I say: This requires reconsideration. After Muslim transmitted it through the route of al-Muʿtamir, from his father Sulaymān, he followed it with other chains of transmission from Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, Hushaym, and Jarīr, who said: from Sulaymān al-Taymī. Muslim said: “With this chain of transmission, something similar.” I say: His statement, “something similar,” entails that the narration of these three is like that of al-Muʿtamir—that is, from al-Taymī, from al-Nahdī, from both Usāmah and Saʿīd. And Allah knows best.

Note: The addition placed within the square brackets appears in Muslim and al-Tirmidhī, as is clear from the preceding discussion. Some of this escaped the author of Dhakhāʾir al-Mawārīth, for he did not attribute it to Muslim in the Musnad of Saʿīd ibn Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl, but attributed it only to al-Tirmidhī! Perhaps in this he followed his source, Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf. Let him check it, for I do not have access to it at present, as I am writing this in Amman and have not yet moved my library there. I ask Allah to facilitate that for me through His grace and generosity. Then, praise be to Allah, I checked it: it is found in 4/9, with symbols indicating that it is recorded by Muslim and al-Tirmidhī. Ibn Ḥibbān also transmitted it from Usāmah alone (7/582–583).

2702 — “Do you have anything that will suffice you?” He said, “No.” He said, “Then eat it”—meaning the camel—“for it had died.”

Al-Ṭayālisī transmitted it (no. 1653): Sharīk narrated to us, from Simāk, from Jābir ibn Samurah: A man had a camel in al-Ḥarrah and entrusted it to another man. It had fallen ill, and when it was about to die, the man’s wife said to him, “If only you would slaughter it so that we could eat from it.” But he refused, and went to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him