and told him about it. He then related the response mentioned above. He said: “We ate its fat, meat, and suet for about twenty days. Then its owner met him and said, ‘Why did you not slaughter it?’ He replied, ‘I was too ashamed before you.’” Ahmad also transmitted it through this route (5/87–88).

I say: This is a good chain for corroborative purposes, and it meets Muslim’s conditions, except that Muslim only transmitted from Sharīk in corroboration. A number of narrators corroborated him:

The first was Ḥammād ibn Salamah: “Simāk narrated to us,” with the same narration, though its wording is: “A man was with his father in al-Ḥarrah when another man said to him, ‘One of my camels has gone missing; if you find it, keep it.’ The man found it, but its owner did not come until it fell ill. His wife said to him, ‘Slaughter it so that we may eat it.’ But he did not do so until it died. Then his wife said, ‘Skin it, so that we may cure its meat and fat.’ He said, ‘Not until I ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.’” The rest of the hadith is similar. Ahmad transmitted it (5/96 and 104), as did Abū Dāwūd (3816), and its chain of transmission is authentic according to Muslim’s conditions.

The second was Abū ʿAwānah, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, with a shortened wording in which “mule” appears in place of “camel.” Ahmad transmitted it (5/89 and 97)—and his son ʿAbd Allāh said: “The correct wording is ‘camel’”—as did al-Ḥākim (4/125), who said: “Authentic according to Muslim’s conditions.” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him.

2703 — “When going to sleep, he would rest his head on his right hand, then say: ‘My Lord, protect me from Your punishment on the Day You resurrect Your servants.’”

It is reported from the hadith of al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, may Allah be pleased with him, through Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī. The narrators differed over its chain of transmission in several ways: