Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3171
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ مَرَّ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ بِرَجُلٍ وَهُوَ يَجُرُّ شَاةً بِأُذُنِهَا فَقَالَ " دَعْ أُذُنَهَا وَخُذْ بِسَالِفَتِهَا " .
Translation
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: ʿUqbah ibn Khālid narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, who informed me from his father, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a man dragging a sheep by its ear and said: Leave its ear and take hold of the front of its neck.