Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 373
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ مِخْرَاقٍ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنِّي لَأَذْبَحُ الشَّاةَ فَأَرْحَمُهَا، أَوْ قَالَ: إِنِّي لَأَرْحَمُ الشَّاةَ أَنْ أَذْبَحَهَا، قَالَ: وَالشَّاةُ إِنْ رَحِمْتَهَا، رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ مَرَّتَيْنِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Mu‘awiya ibn Qurra reported from his father: A man said, ‘Messenger of Allah, I am going to slaughter a sheep, but I feel compassion for it’—or he said, ‘I feel compassion for the sheep I am going to slaughter.’ He replied twice, ‘If you show mercy to the sheep, Allah will show mercy to you.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The narrator gives two variants for the man’s words, and the Prophet’s reply is repeated twice in the source.