Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim 1198a
حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الأَيْلِيُّ، وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِيسَى، قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي مَخْرَمَةُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مِقْسَمٍ، يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ الْقَاسِمَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ، يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَائِشَةَ، زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم تَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " أَرْبَعٌ كُلُّهُنَّ فَاسِقٌ يُقْتَلْنَ فِي الْحِلِّ وَالْحَرَمِ الْحِدَأَةُ وَالْغُرَابُ وَالْفَارَةُ وَالْكَلْبُ الْعَقُورُ " . قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لِلْقَاسِمِ أَفَرَأَيْتَ الْحَيَّةَ قَالَ تُقْتَلُ بِصُغْرٍ لَهَا .
Harun ibn Sa'id al-Ayli and Ahmad ibn Isa said: Ibn Wahb informed us: Makhrama ibn Bukayr informed me, from his father, who said: I heard Ubayd Allah ibn Miqsam say: I heard al-Qasim ibn Muhammad say: I heard Aisha, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ), say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Four harmful creatures are to be killed in al-hill and al-haram: the kite, the crow, the rat, and the vicious dog.’ I said to al-Qasim: ‘What about the snake?’ He said: ‘It is killed with humiliation.’
Translation notes
The paired terms al-hill and al-haram are kept transliterated here because their scope may refer to being outside or within the sacred state or precinct; the Arabic wording does not further specify this in this report.
يُقْتَلْنَ فِي الْحِلِّ وَالْحَرَمِ
These paired terms can be understood as outside and within the sacred precinct or as outside and within the state of ihram; this report does not explain which scope is intended.
Should the terms be rendered as locations or as states of consecration in this context?
تُقْتَلُ بِصُغْرٍ لَهَا
The phrase is unusual; the English witness gives with disgrace, but the precise force of بِصُغْرٍ is not clear from this sentence alone.
Can a reliable lexical or parallel-source reading clarify the phrase about the snake?