Sahih al-Bukhari 5509

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī narrated to us: Yaḥyā narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us: My father narrated to us, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, from Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: “I said, ‘Messenger of God, we will meet the enemy tomorrow, and we have no knives.’ He said: ‘Be quick—or show me—something that makes the blood flow, with God’s name mentioned over it, and eat. Not a tooth or a fingernail. I will explain: the tooth is a bone, and the fingernail is the knife of the Abyssinians.’ We obtained camels and sheep as spoils. One camel bolted, and a man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: ‘These camels can become as wild as wild beasts. If one of them gets the better of you, do this to it.’”