Muslim (7/44), Abū Dāwūd (no. 2550), and Aḥmad (2/375, 517) also transmitted it—all of them through Mālik, from Sumayy the client of Abū Bakr, from Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān, from Abū Hurayrah, traced back to the Prophet. Aḥmad (2/521) reported it again by another route from Abū Ṣāliḥ, in abridged form.

30 – “While a dog was circling around a rakiyah (a well that has not yet been lined with stone) and was on the verge of dying from thirst, a prostitute from among the Children of Israel saw it. She removed her leather sock, drew water with it, gave the dog a drink, and for that deed she was forgiven.”

Al-Bukhārī (2/376, European ed.), Muslim (7/45), and Aḥmad (2/507) narrated it from Muḥammad b. Sīrīn, from Abū Hurayrah, traced back to the Prophet. Anas b. Sīrīn followed Muḥammad in transmitting it from Abū Hurayrah with similar wording. Aḥmad (2/510) related it once more, and that chain is likewise sound.

Among the reports concerning gentleness toward animals:

A – Al-Musayyab b. Dārm said, “I saw ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb strike a camel-driver and say, ‘Why have you loaded your camel with more than it can bear?!’” Ibn Saʿd recorded it in al-Ṭabaqāt (7/127), and its chain is sound up to al-Musayyab b. Dārm, though at first I did not know who this al-Musayyab was. It later became clear to me that the correct form of his father’s name is Dārm; this is how it appears in the isnād preserved by Abū al-Ḥasan al-Akhmīmī in his Ḥadīth collection (fol. 62/2), and it is likewise cited by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl (4/1/294), who said: