“...while exposing himself to the sky.”

Aḥmad also recorded it (3/362) through Ḥammād, who said: “Abū al-Zubayr informed us of it.” He then cited the hadith in full, with its commands and prohibitions, though abbreviating some of its points. He added: “And that we should restrain our free-ranging animals until the first darkness of night has passed.”

Al-Layth ibn Saʿd corroborated him from Abū al-Zubayr regarding the first part of the hadith, but without the prohibitions or the instruction to restrain the animals. Muslim (6/105) and others recorded it. It has been documented in al-Irwāʾ (39). ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ also narrated it from Jābir, and both al-Bukhārī and Muslim recorded it. I have already cited its wording and traced its sources there.

One matter remains: among all the preceding routes and the various sources, I did not find the second of the five prohibitions: “Do not drink with your left hand.” I therefore fear that this was an error on the part of one of the narrators, whereby one hadith became confused with another—as sometimes happens to some of them. For this injunction is established in other hadiths, including the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, in the wording: “None of you should eat with his left hand, nor drink with it, for Satan eats with his left hand and drinks with it.” It has been documented above, along with other reports conveying the same meaning (1236).

Notes on several matters:

First: The final clause among the prohibitions appears in al-Mawārid as follows: “Do not sit with your knees drawn up while wearing a waist-wrapper that leaves you exposed.” In al-Iḥsān (4/89/1273, al-Muʾassasah edition):