“Zayd would discard whatever error or uncertainty there was in a hadith, and narrate only that which was free of doubt,” as stated in his biographical entry in the two works entitled Tahdhib.

Note: tuhur, when pronounced with a u vowel, means purification; when pronounced with an a vowel, it means the water used for purification. The same distinction applies to wudu (minor ablution) and wadu (the water used for it), and to suhur (eating before dawn) and sahur (the pre-dawn meal). Al-Nihayah. *

3490 — “I do not command anyone to prostrate before another. Were I to command anyone to prostrate before another, I would command a woman to prostrate before her husband.”

Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (11/356/12003): al-Abbas ibn al-Fadl al-Asfati narrated to us; Abu Awn al-Ziyadi narrated to us; Abu Azzah al-Dabbagh narrated to us, from Abu Yazid al-Madini, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him:

A man from the Ansar had two male camels that had become agitated by rut. He put them into an enclosure and bolted the gate upon them. Then he came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, wishing him to supplicate for him. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was sitting with a number of the Ansar, and the man said, “O Prophet of Allah, I have come with a need. Two male camels of mine have become agitated by rut, so I put them into an enclosure and bolted the gate upon them. I would like you to supplicate to Allah to make them submissive to me.”

He said to his companions, “Get up and come with us.”

He went until he reached the gate and said, “Open it.”

The gate was opened, and one of the two male camels was near it. When it saw the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, it prostrated before him. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: