In sum, I find nothing in these three hadiths suitable for corroboration except this last hadith. Together with the previously cited supporting narration of al-Anṣārī from Abū Hurayrah, it enables us to be assured of the established wording concerning Ramadan in the hadith of Abū Hurayrah. Perhaps this is why al-Ḥāfiẓ made no comment on it in al-Fatḥ (4/111), saying:

“It is established in Muslim’s collection from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah...”

He then cited it with the additional wording. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best.

3323 — “The prayer must be repeated if a donkey, a woman, or a black dog passes by; and he said: ‘The black dog is a devil.’”

Ibn Khuzaymah transmitted it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2/21/831), and Ibn Ḥibbān, through his route, in (4/54–55/2384): Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Shāmī narrated to us; Hishām narrated to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with this wording. It also contains:

I said, “What distinguishes the black dog from the yellow dog and the red dog?” He replied, “I asked the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, as you have asked me, and he said: ‘The black dog is a devil.’”

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators. Hishām is Ibn Ḥassān, as stated in Ibn Ḥibbān’s narration.

Muslim and others also transmitted it through various chains from Ḥumayd with the wording, “It cuts off the prayer ...” It has been documented in al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr (956), Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd (699), and elsewhere. I have cited the hadith in the heading only because it explicitly states that the prayer must be repeated, thereby explaining the expression, “cuts off”; and