Sahih al-Bukhari 5498

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to me: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn Masrūq, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ, from his grandfather, Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: “We were with the Prophet ﷺ at Dhū al-Ḥulayfah, and hunger struck the people. We obtained camels and sheep. The Prophet ﷺ was at the rear of the people, while they hurried and set the pots on the fire. The Prophet ﷺ was brought to them and ordered the pots to be overturned. Then he divided the animals, allotting ten sheep in place of one camel. One camel bolted. There were only a few horses among the people, so they pursued it but could not catch it. A man aimed an arrow at it, and God stopped it. The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘These animals can become as wild as wild beasts. If one of them bolts from you, deal with it in this way.’”

He said: “My grandfather also said: ‘We hoped—or feared—that we would meet the enemy the next day, and we had no knives. May we slaughter with reeds?’ He said: ‘Whatever makes the blood flow, with God’s name mentioned over it, eat—except [what is slaughtered with] a tooth or a fingernail. I will tell you about them: as for the tooth, it is a bone; and as for the fingernail, it is the knife of the Abyssinians.’”